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 ...

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

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

By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Core consumer inflation in Japan's capital slowed in July but stayed well above the central ...

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 ...

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. Stream Connecticut News for free, 24/7 ...

TOKYO] Japan’s key price measure cooled a tad more than expected while remaining well above the Bank of Japan’s (BOJ) target, ...

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

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's core consumer inflation hit 3.2% in January for its fastest pace in 19 months, data showed on Friday, reinforcing expectations that the central bank will keep raising ...

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 "core-core ...