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, ...

A leading indicator of Japan's service-sector inflation hit 3.3% in May, data showed on Wednesday, keeping alive expectations ...

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 " ...

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, ...

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 ...

Since the 1990s, Japan’s economy has often been regarded as far more prone to deflation than inflation as CPI growth has often hovered around zero percent. Thus, few anticipated many problems when, ...

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 ...

Foreigners divested Japanese stock for the first time in 12 weeks in the week through June 21 on caution over the Israel-Iran ...

Japan's core inflation hit a more than two-year high in May and exceeded the central bank's 2% target for well over three years, keeping it under pressure to resume interest rate hikes despite ...