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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Japan has come to rely on big spending to stimulate its economy, Mr. Park said, and raising rates could both make that approach more difficult to continue and make Japan’s national debt, which ...

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 ...

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 ...