According to the most recent report on consumer prices, published at the Statistics Bureau of Japan, consumer prices rose 3.4 percent year-over-year in May. Japan’s CPI inflation has surged since ...

Major central banks have hiked their policy rates in the face of surging inflation since the Covid-19 pandemic — but the Bank of Japan has been an outlier. It has stayed put despite headline and core ...

Kazuo Ueda, governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), speaks during a news conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. On any list of central bankers dying to get off this crazy thing ...

Japan's core inflation cooled to 3.3% in June, coming down from a 29-month high of 3.7% as rice inflation showed signs of easing. The figure — which strips out costs for fresh food — was in line with ...

Inflation in Japan picked up again for the first time since May, with new government figures showing a 2.9% rise in core consumer prices in September, which matched analyst forecasts and was higher ...

The pace of Japan’s consumer inflation slowed abruptly on the back of government utility subsidies while remaining well above the Bank of Japan’s target hours before authorities are set to decide ...

The USD/JPY exchange rate rose for six consecutive days after the latest Japan inflation data and as traders reacted to the upcoming US figures. It rose to a high of 152.80, its highest level since ...

TOKYO--Data showing persistent inflation in Japan and exports holding firm in the face of tariffs could tilt the scales toward a rate hike sooner rather than later. Steady price growth and resilient ...

Any measures to ease inflation in Japan must be speedy and shouldn’t impede the government’s ability to fund social services, Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Sunday, in a comment ...

That year, Japan had about 123 million people, and its GDP was USD3.1 trillion, the world’s second largest. The United States ...

This is my first time to set foot in Japan’s fourth largest city by population, and I was impressed — modern and nice.