Japan’s core inflation rate fell to 3.3% in June, offering some relief after hitting a 29-month high. The core inflation ...

Marcella Chow, global market strategist at JP Morgan Asset Management, noted that rice accounts for approximately half of Japan's core inflation, and future inflation trends are heavily reliant on ...

Headline inflation climbed 3.6% from a year ago. Japan’s core inflation accelerated to 3.5% in April, government data showed Friday, bolstered in part by surging rice prices, as the central bank ...

Japan's core consumer inflation has exceeded the BOJ's 2% target for well over two years, prodding the BOJ to end negative rates in March and raise short-term rates to 0.25% in July.

Japanese inflation eased in February, government data showed Friday, with prices excluding fresh food rising 3.0 percent year-on-year in the world's fourth-largest economy.

The core-core index, which strips away fresh food and fuel costs and is closely watched by the BOJ as a better gauge of trend inflation, rose 4.2% in September from a year earlier, slowing from a ...

The data released on Friday showed Japan’s core inflation, which includes the long-term trends in the price levels of goods and services, reached its fastest pace since December 1981, double the ...

So-called "core-core" inflation has run above the target since October 2022. The BOJ has raised rates by just 60 basis points in the 14 months since March 2024, when it abandoned its negative ...

Japan’s core inflation accelerated to 3.5% in April, government data showed Friday, bolstered in part by surging rice prices, as the central bank considers pausing its rate hike posture to ...