The Bank of Japan must raise short-term interest rates to at least 1% by the second half of fiscal 2025 to contain inflation ...

The Bank of Japan raised interest rates on Friday to their highest since the 2008 global financial crisis, underscoring its ...

Japanese household spending rose for the first time in five months in year-on-year terms in December and at a much ...

The government needs to prepare now to avoid negative surprises four or five years down the road, the IMF’s Japan mission ...

The Bank of Japan is now pointing the finger at chronic labour shortages—rather than sluggish demand—as the culprit behind its economic woes, hinting that interest rates could rise faster than a sushi ...

Labour cash earnings rose more than expected in December and the November figures were all revised upwards. If Shunto results ...

Japan's December inflation-adjusted real wages rose 0.6% year-on-year thanks to a wintertime bonus bump, preliminary ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan's government on Tuesday nominated Junko Koeda, an academic who had warned of the cost of prolonged monetary easing, to join the Bank of Japan board in March, a choice ...

Deputy Director for the Asia and Pacific Department, Mission Chief for Japan, IMF ...

The Bank of Japan’s interest rate hike to 0.5% last week came as no surprise — some board members had hinted at it beforehand. The central bank's communication strategy often comes across as ...

Teikoku Databank, a research company that tracks historic changes in the cost of assembling a plate of Japan’s beloved curry ...