The data underscores the Bank of Japan's predicament of balancing price pressures from persistent food inflation against ...

Prices in Japan are blowing up while the economy is tanking, and the government looks like it’s scrambling to keep up.

Hotter-than-expected core inflation supports a Bank of Japan interest rate hike in July. The BoJ is expected to deliver a 25 ...

Japan’s consumer inflation gathered pace in April due to higher energy and food prices, although it is unclear if this will ...

Japan's core inflation rate accelerated in April to 3.5 percent. This happened as rice prices almost doubled year-on-year, ...

Government data on Friday showed Japan’s core inflation jumped to 3.5% in April, its highest in more than 2 years. The rise ...

The core inflation figure was higher than expectations of 3.4%. Headline inflation climbed 3.6% from a year ago. Japan's core ...

Japan’s core inflation rate climbed at its fastest rate in more than two years in April, piling pressure on the Bank of Japan ...

Japanese Yen gains on risk aversion as Trump targets EU with tariffs. BoJ policy outlook, Tokyo inflation, and U.S. data ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan's core consumer inflation hit 3.5% in April to advance at its fastest annual pace in more than two ...

Inflation figures for April published this morning are likely to increase the dilemma for the BoJ. After all, inflation ...

Japanese inflation spiked to a two-year high in April, data showed Friday, as rice prices almost doubled, turning focus on ...