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 ...

When Japanese ice pop maker Akagi Nyugyo raised its prices a meagre 10 yen in 2016, its sombre-faced management appeared in a ...

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 rice supply debacle continues as the government is now seeking to lower the price of its stockpiled grain, and focus on discretionary contracts for smaller buyers. However, recent ...

The dramatic rise in rice prices across Japan since August 2024 reveals a troubling paradox. A staple so central to Japanese identity that the word ‘gohan’ means both ‘meal’ and ‘rice’ — a grain that ...

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, ...

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 ...

Japanese inflation spiked at a two-year high in April, data showed Friday, as rice prices almost doubled, turning focus on the central bank as it mulls.

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 rice crisis shows signs of easing as prices stabilize and stocks return to shelves By Lim Hui Jie, CNBC • Published June 25, 2025 • Updated on June 26, 2025 at 10:33 pm ...

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 ...