Japanese inflation slowed slightly in October with prices up 2.3 percent on-year, government data showed Friday.

The BOJ ended negative interest rates in March and raised its short-term policy rate to 0.25% in July on the view Japan was ...

Asia-Pacific markets mostly rose Friday, tracking a rally on Wall Street that saw the S&P log gains for a fourth straight day ...

TOKYO: Tokyo’s inflation ... time since 1982, suggesting the underlying price trend is stronger than thought by economists, a factor that could further fuel speculation the Bank of Japan ...

TOKYO, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Japan's core inflation in October held above the central ... "Although evidence of demand-driven price pressure remains scarce, the renewed yen depreciation over the past two ...

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said the economy was progressing towards sustained wages-driven inflation and warned ...

But it stayed above the Bank of Japan’s key inflation target of two percent, set over a decade ago as part ... interest rates in March for the first time since 2007 and again in July, in initial ...

(Bloomberg) -- Japan ... view that inflation is becoming more entrenched in the economy. While Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda has refrained from giving any clear signals over the likely ...

Investors in Asia also assessed Japan's October ... in employment and inflation data and still sees the need for interest rate cuts ahead. "My view is that the long arc over the last year and ...

(Bloomberg) — Japan’s key inflation ... 5% from 1.3% adds to the view that inflation is becoming more entrenched in the economy. While Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda has refrained from giving any ...