A leading indicator of Japan's service-sector inflation in January accelerated to 3.1% from a year earlier as prices for a ...

Core inflation — which excludes prices of fresh food — rose to 3.2% from 3% in the prior month and beat economists' ...

And households are hating it. Part of the problem is that most of the inflation from which Japan is suffering comes from ...

Global equity markets fell while gold prices surged on Thursday, with traders marking one month since U.S. President Donald ...

Though it recovered in the second half of the year, Japan’s economy barely grew in 2024 as a depreciated yen fueled inflation ...

“Japan’s core inflation is likely to remain around 3% in the first half of this year,” said Taro Saito, head of economic research at NLI Research Institute. “The BOJ will keep mulling the ...

The data highlighted persistent price pressures and reinforced market bets of another interest rate hike this year.

The level of fresh food prices has risen 71.9% since 2010, about five times more than that of inflation excluding it.

TOKYO—Japan’s consumer inflation picked up further in January because of higher energy and food costs, likely adding fuel to speculation that an interest-rate hike is coming soon. Overall ...

Japan's consumer inflation rises to 3.2%, sparking expectations of BOJ hiking rates. ETFs EWJ, BBJP, and DXJ may see mixed outcomes as inflation and bond yields increase.

Japan's headline inflation climbed to 4% in January from from 3.6% in December, hitting a two-year high. Headline inflation has been above the Bank of Japan's 2% target for 34 straight months.

(Bloomberg) -- Food inflation in Japan is a hot topic for households managing monthly budgets — and increasingly for the central bank as well, as prices for staples including rice and cabbage soar.