Bank of Japan is now pointing the finger at chronic labor shortages—rather than sluggish demand—as the culprit behind its ...

The yen is on track for its fourth straight weekly gain against the dollar as spending data on Friday added to signs that the ...

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

JA Tsugaru Hirosaki, an agricultural cooperative, has started selling gift boxes of Sun Fuji apples, with Hatsune Miku on the cover.

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

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

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

Japan's upcoming spring wage discussions, also known as the "shunto" negotiations, will be in focus for investors watching ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell may be breathing easier now that the Trump administration intends to focus on the 10-year Treasury yield, instead of rate cuts, to lower borrowing costs. But for ...

The USD/JPY currency pair has been under selling pressure, dropping to a two-month low of 151.80 before stabilizing around 152.60 at the ...