A slight easing in consumer inflation is welcome news for the Japanese central bank, but stubbornly high food prices will be ...

Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Shinichi Uchida said risks to economic activity and prices were skewed to the downside due to ...

Japan's core inflation cooled to 3.3% in June, coming down from a 29-month high of 3.7% as food inflation showed signs of ...

Japanese voters cast their ballots on Sunday in a closely contested upper house election that could undermine Prime Minister ...

Yujiro Goto, head of foreign exchange strategy for Japan at Nomura, told CNBC that the current inflation spike, especially in food inflation, is mostly due to supply issues, not strong demand.

That means that Japan’s inflation, which over all remains under the government’s target of 2 percent, is most likely driven by supply-side issues caused by the war and the pandemic, not the ...

Liberal Democratic Party loses control of the Upper House in Japan as right-wing parties gain ground with younger voters amid ...

Japanese voters could unleash political turmoil as they head to the polls on Sunday in a tightly contested upper house ...

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 Los Angeles News for free, 24/7 ...