Japanese bank shares have become highly popular with investors betting on rising Bank of Japan interest rates as uncertainty ...

Japan’s largest opposition party wants to use the Bank of Japan’s exchange-traded funds to help cover the cost of making high ...

Hawkish comments from the Bank of Japan and sticky inflation are lifting bond yields to multi-year highs and pushing forward ...

Food inflation in Japan is a hot topic for households managing monthly budgets – and increasingly for the central bank as well, as prices for staples including rice and cabbage soar.

The yen hit its strongest level against the dollar since December, beating all major currencies’ performance on Thursday amid ...

The U.S. dollar dropped against major currencies on Thursday, as investors took a step back and assessed President Donald ...

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and Lucy Raitano NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar fell against major currencies on ...

The dollar eased against a range of currencies on Thursday, as investors digested U.S. President Donald Trump's latest tariff ...

The survey also showed analysts' median prediction for the rate of pay increases in wage talks this year is 5%, close to last ...

The level of fresh food prices has risen 71.9% since 2010, about five times more than that of inflation excluding it.

Last year, the BOJ exited a massive, decade-long stimulus programme in March and hiked short-term rates to 0.25% in July. It ...

Japan now ranks as the fourth-largest economy after the US, China and Germany. Economists expect India to overtake Japan ...