A leading indicator of Japan's service-sector inflation hit 3.1% in April, data showed on Tuesday, keeping alive expectations ...

The Bank of Japan must be vigilant to the risk rising food prices could push up underlying inflation that is already near its ...

The data underscores the Bank of Japan's predicament of balancing price pressures from persistent food inflation against ...

The Japanese government decided Tuesday to allocate 388.1 billion yen ($2.7 billion) from reserve funds for the current ...

Japan’s core inflation rate climbed at its fastest rate in more than two years in April, piling pressure on the Bank of Japan ...

Government data on Friday showed Japan’s core inflation jumped to 3.5% in April, its highest in more than 2 years. The rise ...

Japan’s consumer inflation gathered pace in April due to higher energy and food prices, although it is unclear if this will ...

Japanese inflation spiked at a two-year high in April, data showed Friday, as rice prices almost doubled, turning focus on ...

Inflation figures for April published this morning are likely to increase the dilemma for the BoJ. After all, inflation ...

Japan's core inflation rate accelerated in April to 3.5 percent. This happened as rice prices almost doubled year-on-year, ...

The core inflation figure was higher than expectations of 3.4%. Headline inflation climbed 3.6% from a year ago. Japan’s core ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan's core consumer inflation hit 3.5% in April to advance at its fastest annual pace in more than two ...