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

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 ...

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

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

When Japanese ice pop maker Akagi Nyugyo raised its prices a meagre 10 yen in 2016, its sombre-faced management appeared in a ...

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

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Japan has come to rely on big spending to stimulate its economy, Mr. Park said, and raising rates could both make that approach more difficult to continue and make Japan’s national debt, which ...

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.