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

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

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 ...

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

Sources say that Japan's tax collectors brought in a record amount of revenue for the fifth consecutive year. Contributing ...

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

Japan's core inflation hit a more than two-year high in May, exceeding the central bank's 2% target for well over three years ...

Business sentiment among Japan's big manufacturers unexpectedly improved in the three months to June, a central bank survey ...

It has stayed put despite headline and core inflation running above its target of 2% since April 2022, and despite headline ...

The Bank of Japan faces scrutiny ahead of its policy meeting, with potential interest rate hikes anticipated if inflation ...

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 ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's tax revenues likely hit a record for a fifth straight year in the fiscal year that ended in March ...