TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has cleared the key threshold for the government to officially declare an end to long-term price deflation, economy minister Ryosei Akazawa said on Friday. The remark ...

“Goldman Sachs has suggested that investors look to Japan’s ‘lost decade’ as a guide to the future of the Chinese stockmarket.” – The Economist (Jan. 11, 2025 After two decades of rapid expansion, ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's three largest banking groups posted record annual net profit in the last financial year, benefitting from increased corporate activity due to the end of deflation in Japan.

It took more than thirty years, but Japan may finally be on the cusp of a new economic era. After decades of deflation, stagnation, and demographic headwinds, the world’s third-largest economy is ...

Uniqlo's bullish outlook comes as Japan is on the brink of falling back into deflation with price rises stuck at zero because of sliding oil prices and subdued demand. Household spending has also not ...

Japan has experienced a state of mild deflation since the mid-1990s. In fact, the Japanese CPI has been almost always slightly negative since 1998, except for a brief period before the 2007-08 global ...

WASHINGTON — Faced with a moribund economy and the risk of Japan-like debilitating deflation, the European Central Bank is weighing unconventional measures to spark economic growth and, oddly enough, ...