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 ...

Consumers' one-year inflation expectations hit 2.67% in March, up from 2.43% in February, and were the highest since comparable data became available in 2014, the survey showed.

Japan's consumer prices have risen sharply, with a 3.7% increase in May, the fastest since January 2023, largely driven by food prices, particularly rice, which surged 102% year-on-year.

Since 2022, inflation has skyrocketed to levels Japan hasn't seen since the 1980s – currently 3.4 percent. The policy of cheap credit and money printing was supposed to combat deflation, but it ...

Japan's core consumer inflation hit a fresh 41-year high in January as companies passed on higher costs to households, data showed on Friday, keeping the central bank under pressure to phase out ...

Japanese inflation spiked to a two-year high in April, data showed Friday, as rice prices almost doubled, turning focus on the central bank as it mulls more interest rate hikes amid the Trump ...

TOKYO — Ramen is an affordable comfort dish in Japan, where a bowl of warm noodles in hearty broth rarely costs more than 1,000 yen, or about $6.80. It’s a quick and reliable meal during a ...

TOKYO - Ramen is an affordable comfort dish in Japan, where a bowl of warm noodles in hearty broth rarely costs more than 1,000 yen, or about $6.80. It’s a quick and reliable meal during a work ...