Richard Franulovich of Westpac sees the dollar-yen reaching mid-140s, but says a repeat of the yen carry trade unwind in 2024 ...

BOJ shifts focus away from output gap, towards labour shortage Board debated wage pressure, stagflation risk at January ...

The Bank of Japan raised interest rates on Friday to their highest since the 2008 global financial crisis, underscoring its confidence that rising wages will keep inflation stable around its 2% target ...

Rising consumer prices are putting real wage growth at risk and possibly becoming a drag on much-needed household consumption ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A Japanese flag flutters at the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo on July 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Shuji ...

The government needs to prepare now to avoid negative surprises four or five years down the road, the IMF’s Japan mission ...

Labour cash earnings rose more than expected in December and the November figures were all revised upwards. If Shunto results ...

As interest rates rise, the value of JGBs could plummet due to heightened inflation and duration risks. Click to read.

TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan's government on Tuesday nominated Junko Koeda, an academic who had warned of the cost of prolonged monetary easing, to join the Bank of Japan board in March, a choice ...

Japan's December inflation-adjusted real wages rose 0.6% year-on-year thanks to a wintertime bonus bump, preliminary ...

All three of Japan's "megabanks" are on course for record annual income after the first nine months of the financial year as ...

Japan's central bank has raised the cost of borrowing to its highest level in 17 years, as it tries to curb rising prices. The move by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to raise its short-term policy rate to ...