The current surge in Japan’s ultralong yields should support an increased allocation to JGBs, DBS Group Research’s Chang Wei Liang says in commentary. Japan’s 30-year yield has risen toward 3.20% from ...

Consumer inflation in the Tokyo metropolitan area picked up in May, signaling persistent price pressures nationwide.

Japan's core inflation accelerated at its fastest annual pace in more than two years in April on steady rises in food costs, ...

Japanese government bonds edged up slightly on Friday, clawing back ground after a brutal week that saw yields on long-term ...

"Major financial events often happen first in Japan, for example the late-1990s tech bubble bursting first in Japan," Albert ...

A record surge in the price of rice drove Japan's consumer inflation higher in April. The country's staple crop nearly doubled in price compared to the same month a year earlier.

Japan’s consumer inflation picked up last month, bolstered in part by surging rice prices, supporting the central bank’s stance on a gradual rate hike path before US tariff measures clouded the ...

The government has been releasing some of its stockpiled rice since March, but that has yet to translate to lower prices.

The news also puts pressure on Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ahead of elections in July and after a minister was forced to resign over a gaffe about the national food staple, while officials were ...

The latest uptick in inflation was driven mostly by a food price surge of 7.0% in a sign many companies hiked prices at the April start of Japan's new fiscal year. The price of rice spiked 98.6% ...