Japan heads to the polls on Sunday in a vote shaped by economic discontent, rising nationalism, tensions with US - Anadolu ...

Meat is a much bigger component of the weekly shop. Meat inflation, which was 5.7 per cent in June, is among other things being driven by higher beef prices on expectations of falling supply. This is ...

Inflation stays above 3% in June. An expert says the nation's workers need to take the initiative to demand pay hikes if they ...

The U.S. dollar slipped on Friday but held onto weekly gains, as investors weighed signs that tariffs may be starting to ...

TOKYO: Rice prices in Japan soared 99.2 per cent in June year-on-year, official data showed Friday (Jul 18), piling further pressure on Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ahead of elections this weekend. T ...

While tepid, economic growth remains positive globally and, in the U.S., could improve toward the end of the year and into ...

The Bank of Japan will warn of uncertainty over the impact of U.S. tariffs in a quarterly report due this month, but may ...

Japan's key measure of consumer prices cooled slightly more than expected in June, but remained well above the Bank of ...

Asian shares tracked Wall Street higher on Friday as still-strong U.S. economic data and robust corporate earnings offset ...

Asian shares were mostly higher on Friday after Wall Street rose to records following better-than-expected updates on the ...

As reaffirmed by the latest CPI data, domestic prices--especially for goods--remain strong, but with the conclusion of U.S.-Japan trade negotiations still uncertain, the BOJ will likely continue to ...

Japan's core inflation rate slowed to 3.3 percent in June from 3.7 percent in May, official data showed Friday.