Consumer inflation in the Tokyo metropolitan area picked up in May, signaling persistent price pressures nationwide.

The current surge in Japan’s ultralong yields should support an increased allocation to JGBs, DBS Group Research’s Chang Wei Liang says in commentary. Japan’s 30-year yield has risen toward 3.20% from ...

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

"Major financial events often happen first in Japan, for example the late-1990s tech bubble bursting first in Japan," Albert ...

Japanese government bonds edged up slightly on Friday, clawing back ground after a brutal week that saw yields on long-term ...

A record surge in the price of rice drove Japan's consumer inflation higher in April. The country's staple crop nearly doubled in price compared to the same month a year earlier.

Japan’s consumer inflation picked up last month, bolstered in part by surging rice prices, supporting the central bank’s stance on a gradual rate hike path before US tariff measures clouded the ...

The government has been releasing some of its stockpiled rice since March, but that has yet to translate to lower prices.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Private-sector members of a key Japanese government ... out for the risks of food inflation dampening private consumption and of a potential surge in interest rates hurting ...

Mitul Kotecha, head of Asia FX and rate strategy at Barclays told CNBC's "Squawk Box Asia" Thursday the sell-off was fueled partly by the rise in Japan's inflation: "A lot of people [are] saying ...

Japan recorded a trade surplus of 584 billion yen ($3.9 billion) last month. It had a trade deficit of 415 billion yen the previous year. The surge in ... to counter rising inflation, but Trump's ...

Japan recorded a trade surplus of 584 billion yen ($3.9 billion) last month. It had a trade deficit of 415 billion yen the previous year. The surge in ... to counter rising inflation, but Trump ...