By Leika Kihara TOKYO, March 31 (Reuters) - Annual core inflation in Tokyo slowed to a nearly two-year low in March and ...

By Leika Kihara TOKYO, March 31 (Reuters) - Annual core inflation in Tokyo slowed to a nearly two-year low in March and ...

Japan on Tuesday labelled recent yen falls as speculative for the first time since the Middle East war began, shifting its ...

The consumer price index fell to 1.3% last month, its lowest level since March 2022 and below the central bank's 2% target.

Japan’s annual annual headline rate easing to 1.3% from 1.5% in the prior month. For the first time since early 2022, core ...

Cooling inflation and rising cost pressures from the West Asia conflict complicate the Bank of Japan’s policy path ...

Japan's core consumer prices in February rose 1.6 percent from a year earlier, climbing less than 2 percent for the first ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's June core inflation likely slowed but remained above the central bank's 2% target, a Reuters poll showed, keeping it under pressure to resume interest rate hikes as U.S. trade ...

Headline inflation also came down to 3.1% from 3.3% in June. Core inflation also dropped to 3.1% from 3.3%. The so-called "core-core" inflation rate, which strips out prices of both fresh food and ...

The core consumer price index in Japan, which excludes fresh food but includes fuel costs, increased for the third consecutive month to 2.7% year-on-year in July 2024, following a 2.6% gain in June ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's core inflation slowed in June but stayed above the central bank's 2% target for well over three years, highlighting lingering price pressures that back market expectations for ...

Japan's core inflation cooled to 3.3% in June, coming down from a 29-month high of 3.7% as rice inflation showed signs of easing. The figure — which strips out costs for fresh food — was in line with ...