Japan's core inflation accelerated at its fastest annual pace in more than two years in April on steady rises in food costs, ...

By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) -Long-dated Japanese government bonds saw little relief on Wednesday after a poor auction result sent yields to record levels and as more debt sales loomed in the weeks ...

"Major financial events often happen first in Japan, for example the late-1990s tech bubble bursting first in Japan," Albert ...

The current surge in Japan’s ultralong yields should support an increased allocation to JGBs, DBS Group Research’s Chang Wei Liang says in commentary. Japan’s 30-year yield has risen toward 3.20% from ...

This means consumers have paid a premium, contributing to a downward trend in rice consumption alongside other factors such ...

A record surge in the price of rice drove Japan's consumer inflation higher in April. The country's staple crop nearly doubled in price compared to the same month a year earlier.

Japanese government bonds edged up slightly on Friday, clawing back ground after a brutal week that saw yields on long-term ...

The government has been releasing some of its stockpiled rice since March, but that has yet to translate to lower prices.

Japan’s consumer inflation picked up last month, bolstered in part by surging rice prices, supporting the central bank’s stance on a gradual rate hike path before US tariff measures clouded the ...

AFTER years of moving at a glacial pace, yields in Japan’s $7.8-trillion government debt market are shifting higher at breakneck speed. The moves in the nation’s longer-maturity bonds have been ...

Japan recorded a trade surplus of 584 billion yen ($3.9 billion) last month. It had a trade deficit of 415 billion yen the previous year. The surge in ... to counter rising inflation, but Trump's ...

The latest uptick in inflation was driven mostly by a food price surge of 7.0% in a sign many companies hiked prices at the April start of Japan's new fiscal year. The price of rice spiked 98.6% ...