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 Japanese government bonds has doubled in ...

Japan was once known for its low levels of inflation, but the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war helped reverse the decades-long trend in 2022. Labour shortages have further compounded the problem.

Japan's annual inflation rate eased to 3.3% in June 2025 from 3.5% in the previous month, marking the lowest reading since ...

Not surprisingly, price inflation has proven to be politically unpopular and this has forced the hand of the Bank of Japan, which, finally in April 2024, allowed its target policy interest rate to ...

Japan’s benchmark 10-year government bond yield climbed to its highest level since 2008 ahead of an upper house election.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has faced a major setback following a significant electoral defeat on Monday in the upper house ...

The price of rice doubled in Japan in the 12 months to May, data showed Friday, as an acceleration in inflation piled fresh pressure on Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ahead ...

The Trump effect—embodied in both American policy and its global ideological footprint—has found fertile ground in Japan’s ...

With rice prices skyrocketing 92.1 per cent year-on-year to fifty-year highs, Japan faces an inflation crisis cantered on its cultural staple. The resulting 3.2 per cent core inflation and record 28.3 ...

Data from Japan's agriculture ministry revealed that the average price of a five-kg bag of rice had fallen to 3,920 yen ($27.03) for the week ending June 15, which marked the first time that rice ...

F OR YEARS Japan was a reassuring example for governments. Even as its net public debt peaked at 162% of GDP in 2020, it suffered no budget crisis. Instead it enjoyed rock-bottom interest rates, ...