Japan’s post-pandemic environment has altered the fiscal equation. The global inflation shock and a weaker yen have combined ...

TOKYO -- With the stock market plunging to 16-year lows, talk of deflationary dangers and a morass of confusion in its political leadership, Japan appears to be headed toward a serious economic crisis ...

(Bloomberg) -- New Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, speaking in his first press conference as national leader, pledged to keep up efforts to decisively end deflation and called on the Bank of ...

A growing number of policymakers at the Bank of Japan believed that conditions were falling into place for interest rates to ...

(Bloomberg) -- New Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba emphasized in his first speech to parliament that his top economic priority is to defeat deflation and put the nation on a stable growth track ...

During his Nov. 13 visit to Tokyo, U.S. President Barack Obama emphasized that Japan, as the world’s second largest economy, has a special role in the global marketplace. One week later, it’s becoming ...

After years of wandering in the policy wilderness, Japan’s financial wizards think they have discovered what’s really wrong with Japan’s economy. It’s deflation. In January, Prime Minister Junichiro ...

(AP) Japan reports that its chronic deflation persisted in January, with consumer prices falling 0.2 percent from a year earlier, though the employment situation showed a modest improvement. Prime ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese core consumer prices fell at the fastest annual pace on record in July, potentially putting pressure on a reluctant Bank of Japan to rein in deepening deflation. The ...

The BOJ just said they are out of deflation. That's not incredible news? By the way inflation jumped 100bp in three months but all the major publications reported that it's still down. Does everyone ...

EVANSVILLE, Ind./TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan officials said they were on alert for signs of deflation and grappling with how the central banks would keep it at bay as ...