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, ...

The Bank of Japan must be vigilant to the risk rising food prices could push up underlying inflation that is already near its ...

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

This means consumers have paid a premium, contributing to a downward trend in rice consumption alongside other factors such ...

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

Core inflation in Japan's capital surged to a more than two-year high in May, primarily driven by persistent increases in ...

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% ...

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

Bond investors are demanding more and more compensation to hold long-dated US debt as global markets grow anxious about the ...

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 ...

AFTER years of moving at a glacial pace, yields in Japan’s $7.8-trillion government debt market are shifting higher at breakneck speed. The moves in the nation’s longer-maturity bonds have been ...