By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese households will get no respite from rising living costs with a five-fold increase ...

Any measures to ease inflation in Japan must be speedy and shouldn’t impede the government’s ability to fund social services, ...

Core consumer inflation in Japan's capital slowed sharply in June due to temporary cuts to utility bills but stayed well ...

It has stayed put despite headline and core inflation running above its target of 2% since April 2022, and despite headline inflation's two-year high of 4% in January. So-called " ...

According to the most recent report on consumer prices, published at the Statistics Bureau of Japan, consumer prices rose 3.4 ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -A leading indicator of Japan's service-sector inflation hit 3.3% in May, data showed on Wednesday, keeping ...

Ishiba has opposed lowering the sales tax ahead of an Upper House election where voters will vote on the performance of his ...

Headline inflation in Japan remained unchanged in May at 3.5 per cent and remains well above the BoJ’s 2 per cent target. The ...

Those trends coupled with worries about the economic hit from higher U.S. tariffs partly explain why the BOJ has signaled a ...

As Donald Trump juggles two big battles — one foreign, one domestic — the Bank of Japan finds itself even further in ...

Japan's rice prices have doubled in a year, straining households and fueling political tension ahead of key elections ...

In Japan, the main driver of inflation is food prices, specifically rice prices. Money Report. news 3 hours ago China's industrial profits plunge 9.1%, steepest fall in seven months news 4 hours ...