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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

TOKYO — For years, as Japan tried to boost its chronically weak economic growth, it pursued what its central bank saw as a magic formula: stronger inflation and a weaker yen.

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.

Japan's inflation has been above target for over 3 years, but where is the BOJ? By Lim Hui Jie, CNBC • Published June 25, 2025 • Updated on June 25, 2025 at 12:42 am ...