TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is expected to report its first year-on-year increase in household spending in five months, a Reuters poll showed on Friday, although the rise appears to be marginal, ...

An uptick in inflation in the Tokyo metropolitan area and solid outturns in other key Japanese economic data support the Bank ...

Asian shares wavered on Friday, weighed down by the return of tech-heavy South Korean stocks from holidays, but relatively strong earnings from US tech giants kept risk sentiment intact while tariff ...

Japan needs to promote digitalisation as rising inflation and interest rates will increase demand for new financial services ...

Core inflation in Japan's capital hit 2.5%, marking the fastest annual pace in nearly a year, well exceeding the central bank ...

Japan’s real rates clearly remain in negative territory even with last week’s interest rate hike, and the Bank of Japan will keep raising rates if its economic outlook is realized, according to Deputy ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The fading shadow of reflationists in the Bank of Japan, and the latest addition to the board of an ...

The Japanese government expects its annual debt-servicing costs to rise to almost $230 billion over the next four years as the central bank’s campaign to gradually raise interest rates drives up ...

Economic strength in the US relative to other major economies is likely to drive contrasting paths for interest rates ...

The Japanese government has nominated Junko Koeda, a political science and economics professor at Waseda University, to join ...