Japan's core consumer price inflation likely accelerated in January from the previous month and rose at the joint-fastest ...

Japan's annual wholesale inflation jumped to a seven-month high of 4.2% in January and accelerated for the fifth straight ...

The level of fresh food prices has risen 71.9% since 2010, about five times more than that of inflation excluding it.

Though it recovered in the second half of the year, Japan’s economy barely grew in 2024 as a depreciated yen fueled inflation ...

The Japanese government said Friday it will release a fifth of its emergency rice stockpile after hot weather, poor harvests ...

Companies have told the U.S. central bank they generally expect to raise prices to pass along the cost of import tariffs.

The Bank of Japan must raise interest rates more as keeping them at current low levels could cause excessive risk-taking and push up inflation too much, its board member Hajime Takata said, cementing ...

Japan's Trade Minister Yoji Muto plans to visit the United States in March and ask the Trump administration to exempt Japan ...

Hawkish comments from the Bank of Japan and sticky inflation are lifting bond yields to multi-year highs and pushing forward ...

Japan’s economy grew at a better-than-expected annual rate of 2.8% in October-December, underlined by steady exports and ...

Japan’s economy expanded at an annualized 2.8% in the October-December quarter, surpassing market expectations.

When asked for his take on whether Japan suffers from inflation and not its pernicious opposite, Ishiba demurred. “Japan is not in deflation,” he said, “but it hasn’t been able to ...