By Makiko Yamazaki and Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO (Reuters) -Core consumer prices in Japan's capital rose 2.2% in February from a ...

Core consumer prices in Japan's capital rose 2.2% in February from a year earlier, data showed on Friday, slowing for the ...

Global equity markets fell while gold prices surged on Thursday, with traders marking one month since U.S. President Donald ...

As of late February, Nishiki rice at online stores specializing in Japanese food and Asian supermarkets was selling for ...

Consumer inflation in the Tokyo metropolitan area grew at a slower pace in February, cooling speculation about an early ...

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

INFLATION in Tokyo slowed more than expected as government subsidies meant to offset energy costs distorted readings, a ...

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

“Japan’s core inflation is likely to remain around 3% in the first half of this year,” said Taro Saito, head of economic research at NLI Research Institute. “The BOJ will keep mulling the ...

Overall, inflation including volatile fresh food was up 4.0 percent ... harvests and panic-buying over a "megaquake" warning ...

BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda has said the central bank will keep raising interest rates if Japan makes continued progress in durably achieving 2% inflation, solid wage growth and domestic demand.

(Bloomberg) -- 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.