Cars for export park at a port in Yokohama, near Tokyo on July 6, 2020. Japan’s trade deficit for the first half of this year totaled nearly 8 trillion yen ($58 billion), because of surging oil prices and a sinking yen, brought on partly by the war in Ukraine, and weaker global demand, according to Finance Ministry data released Thursday, July 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)