Rei Ihara, food sector analyst at UBS Securities, said the scope for further price hikes is narrowing, as Japan's Engel coefficient, the share of household spending on food, hit 28.3% in 2024, the ...

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 ...

Prolonged high prices for food and other goods have pushed down consumer sentiment and real wages, while predictions for ...

By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Core consumer inflation in Japan's capital slowed in July but stayed well above the central ...

Japan's core inflation slowed in June but stayed above the central bank's 2% target for well over three years, highlighting ...

The increase in rice prices slowed marginally to a 100.2% increase year over year, down from 101.7% in May.

So-called break-even inflation rates, which reflect the bond market’s expectations of how fast prices will rise, are at ...

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 ...

Japan's June core inflation likely slowed but remained above the central bank's 2% target, a Reuters poll showed, keeping it under pressure to resume interest rate hikes as U.S. trade tariffs threaten ...

TOKYO — For years, as Japan tried to boost its chronically weak economic growth, it pursued what its central bank saw as a magic formula: stronger inflation and a weaker yen.

Japan’s inability to lift inflation is “one of the biggest unsolved challenges in the profession,” said Mark Gertler, a professor of economics at New York University who has studied the issue.

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