and inflation could spiral further. Demographics is one of the biggest forces shaping Japan’s economy. The country’s ...

Japan is now caught between two pressures: tame inflation and protect the yen, or hold rates low and risk capital flight.

Japans annual wholesale inflation slowed in May, driven by declining import prices for raw materials, offering temporary ...

Governments can control interest rates and inflation rates ... This is as good a snapshot as any of Japan's demographic crisis. There are hundreds of communities here, fading like Ichinono.

TOKYO--An uptick in inflation in the Tokyo metropolitan area and solid outturns in other key Japanese economic data support the Bank of Japan's plan ... and aging population, to continue to ...

Japan's factory activity shrank at the slowest pace in five months in May as the decline in new orders eased, but worries over U.S. tariffs have dampened the recovery from an almost year-long ...

Japans junior ruling coalition partner, Komeito, plans to propose cutting the consumption tax on food from 8% to 5% as part ...