According to the most recent report on consumer prices, published at the Statistics Bureau of Japan, consumer prices rose 3.4 percent year-over-year in May.

Japan’s inflation is no longer a theory. It is finally a reality. For decades, the country struggled with deflation, where prices stayed flat or fell, wages barely moved, and companies hoarded cash.

Then, in January 2024, the government overhauled its NISA scheme, a tax-free investing option modelled on Britain’s ISA s.

Japans annual wholesale inflation slowed for the third straight month in June, reinforcing the Bank of Japans (BOJ) ...

Japan, the world’s fourth-largest economy, faces mounting debt with a government debt-to-GDP ratio near 260% and rising inflation. Despite strong exports, a rapidly aging population and minimal ...

Japanese real wages in May fell at the fastest pace in nearly two years as persistent inflation continued to outpace wage ...

Japan's population has been shrinking for 15 years, with huge implications for the country's economy, national defense, and culture. Now, policymakers are working to boost birth rates.

TOKYO--An uptick in inflation in the Tokyo metropolitan area and solid outturns in other key Japanese economic data support the Bank of Japan's plan to pursue more interest-rate increases ...

In a number of ways, Japan’s economy seems to have gone back in time. Inflation and wage growth are mostly back where they were in the early 1990s, just before the spiral of price deflation and ...