Rei Ihara, food sector analyst at UBS Securities, said the scope for further price hikes is narrowing, as Japan's Engel ...

Prolonged high prices for food and other goods have pushed down consumer sentiment and real wages, while predictions for ...

On any list of central bankers dying to get off this crazy thing called 2025, Japan’s Kazuo Ueda deserves a spot at the very ...

By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Core consumer inflation in Japan's capital stayed well above the central bank's 2% target in ...

The increase in rice prices slowed marginally to a 100.2% increase year over year, down from 101.7% in May.

So-called break-even inflation rates, which reflect the bond market’s expectations of how fast prices will rise, are at ...

Japan's core inflation slowed in June but stayed above the central bank's 2% target for well over three years, highlighting ...

Japan’s CPI inflation has surged since mid-2022, bringing inflation rates up to multi-decade highs and to levels not seen since the early 1980s. In more recent years, ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Monday he will stay in office to tackle challenges such as rising ...

Japan’s inability to lift inflation is “one of the biggest unsolved challenges in the profession,” said Mark Gertler, a professor of economics at New York University who has studied the issue.

A slight easing in consumer inflation is welcome news for the Japanese central bank, but stubbornly high food prices will be ...

The EU, a group of countries with shared economic interests, exports about $2 trillion worth of goods to the U.S. The 27 ...