The Bank of Japan is increasingly blaming chronic labor shortages, not stagnant demand, as the main reason for its weak ...

TOKYO - Japan must act immediately to improve its fiscal health as the risks of natural disasters mount and social security ...

Gita Gopinath, the First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said Friday that “Japan’s ...

Nada Choueiri, Deputy Director of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Asia-Pacific Department and its mission chief for ...

Japanese household spending rose for the first time in five months in year-on-year terms in December and at a much ...

The Bank of Japan is likely to raise interest rates again this year and see borrowing costs reach levels deemed neutral to ...

Average household monthly income was 1,179,259 yen, up 7.2% in nominal terms and up 2.9% in real terms year on year. The ...

Consumer spending climbed 2.7% in December from a year earlier, data from the internal affairs ministry showed on Friday, ...

The more President Donald Trump threatens tariffs on the U.S.’s trading partners, the more the worry of another inflation ...

The yen touched an eight-week high versus the dollar on Thursday after a Bank of Japan policy board member advocated ...

LONDON: European shares hit a record high, gold was near one of its own all-time peaks and bond markets were back under ...