If the Bank of Japan had behaved in a similar manner to its G 10 peers, notes Tim Baker of Deutsche Bank, the country’s ...

The Bank of Japan raised interest rates on Friday to their highest since the 2008 global financial crisis, underscoring its ...

The 3% reading in December is the highest inflation rate since August 2023, and boosts the case for a rate hike from the Bank of Japan. The headline inflation rate in Japan came in at 3.6% ...

Japans service-sector inflation reached 2.9% year-on-year in December, driven by rising costs in accommodation and ...

Japan's annual rate of consumer price inflation accelerated to 3.0 percent in December from 2.7 percent the month before, government data showed Friday. The core Consumer Price Index (CPI), which ...

(Bloomberg) -- Japan’s key inflation gauge hit 3% for the first time in 16 months, underscoring the nation’s sustained price momentum just hours before the central bank is expected to hike ...

TOKYO, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Some 85.7 percent of respondents in Japan expected prices to go up in the coming year while 31.1 percent predicted significant rises as a high level of inflation concern ...

The Bank of Japan is expected to raise rates by 25 basis points later in the day as it concludes its monetary policy meeting.