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.

Japan's core consumer price inflation likely accelerated in January from the previous month and rose at the joint-fastest ...

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

Japan's annual wholesale inflation jumped to a seven-month high of 4.2% in January and accelerated for the fifth straight ...

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

Hawkish comments from the Bank of Japan and sticky inflation are lifting bond yields to multi-year highs and pushing forward ...

Japan’s economy expanded at an annualized 2.8% in the October-December quarter, surpassing market expectations.

Inflation in Japan might be tougher to tame than expected, putting real wage growth at risk and possibly becoming a drag on much-needed household consumption. “Although the Bank of Japan ...

Japan’s economy grew at a better-than-expected annual rate of 2.8% in October-December, underlined by steady exports and ...

The Bank of Japan must raise interest rates more as keeping them at current low levels could cause excessive risk-taking and push up inflation too much, its board member Hajime Takata said, cementing ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's annual wholesale inflation jumped to a seven-month high of 4.2% in January and accelerated for the fifth straight month, highlighting persistent price pressures and ...