Britain on Friday announced that it had secured a free trade deal with Japan, the country's first major post-Brexit agreement. "The UK has secured a free trade agreement with Japan, which is the UK's first major trade deal as an independent trading nation and will increase trade with Japan by an estimated £15.2 billion ($19.5 billion, 16.5 billion euros)," the Department for International Trade said in a statement. jwp/phz/spm