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 ...

Japan’s government bond market is spinning out of control, and it’s dragging America into the mess. Volatility across ...

Major central banks hiked their policy rates in the face of surging inflation, but the Bank of Japan has been an outlier. Food inflation, especially rice prices, is a major factor behind the rise ...

Prices soar 99.2% in June year-on-year as support for Shigeru Ishiba sinks to a record low ahead of weekend polls.

Japan's annual wholesale inflation slowed in June for the third successive month, data from the Bank of Japan showed on Thursday, backing up the central bank's view that price pressure from rising raw ...

The surge in rice prices comes as Japan's core inflation rate climbed to 3.7% in May, marking its highest level since January 2023.

Since 2022, inflation has skyrocketed to levels Japan hasn't seen since the 1980s – currently 3.4 percent. The policy of cheap credit and money printing was supposed to combat deflation, but it ...

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 ...

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 ...