Marcella Chow, global market strategist at JP Morgan Asset Management, noted that rice accounts for approximately half of Japan's core inflation, and future inflation trends are heavily reliant on ...

Japan's inflation picked up in January, with core inflation reaching 3.2% year-on-year, surpassing expectations. The rising inflation has fueled speculation that the Bank of Japan (BoJ) could soon ...

Japan’s largest labor organization, known as Rengo or the Japanese Trade Union Confederation, is now demanding wage increases of 5% at this year’s talks with the management of various ...

From inflation allowances to the reskilling of workers, firms in Japan are stepping up efforts to help employees fight rising prices and a labour crunch, even though some cannot afford pay hikes ...

Japanese fund manager Asset Management One offers an investment trust that owns inflation-linked bonds which earned a 4.2% return for the year to December versus zero return for its trust holding ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's core consumer inflation slowed for a third straight month in January but beat forecasts and held at the central bank's 2% target, keeping alive expectations it will end ...

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

The Japanese government’s strong response to the economic fallout from COVID-19 presents an opportunity to examine whether expansionary fiscal policies raise long-term inflation expectations.

TOKYO, Oct 11 (Reuters) - A sudden spike in inflation expectations priced into Japanese government bonds shows some investors are changing long-held assumptions about the economy being resistant ...

LONDON] Yields for long-term debt from Japan and Germany to the UK and France rose on Monday (Jul 14) as growing concern over ...

It has stayed put despite headline and core inflation running above its target of 2% since April 2022, and despite headline inflation's two-year high of 4% in January. So-called "core-core ...

Average inflation over the past 10 years, when stripping out the impact of two sales tax hikes, is about 0.1%. With inflation nowhere near the Bank of Japan's 2% target, investors expect the ...