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 ...

The surge is straining the wallets of Japanese ... for a 5kg bag of rice. Japan’s core inflation rate accelerated to 3.5 percent in April, according to new data from the Bank of Japan, its ...

(Bloomberg) — Japan’s key inflation gauge accelerated to the fastest clip in more than two years, with soaring rice prices exacerbating Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s troubles after a cabinet shakeup ...

Inflation spiked at a two-year high in April as rice prices almost doubled in Japan. Picture: iStock The rocketing cost of a key part of Japanese people’s diet is growing into a crisis for the ...

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

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

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

The latest uptick in inflation was driven mostly by a food price surge of 7% in a sign many companies hiked prices at the April start of Japan's new fiscal year. The price of rice spiked 98.6% ...

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

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% ...

Japanese inflation data released today showed that ... a record hot summer in 2023 that hit harvests, followed by a surge in demand in 2024, in part fuelled by panic-buying following a warning ...