Following weeks of flirting with the closely watched 152 level versus the greenback, the yen blew straight through this mark on Wednesday a...

Improved business sentiment among big Japanese non-manufacturers in Q1, with big manufacturers' sentiment souring due to auto production di...

Japan's wage trend, along with inflation, is closely watched, with the Bank of Japan regarding both indicators among the key data to consid...

Real wages adjusted for inflation fell in July for a 16th straight month in a sign households continued to feel the pinch from rising price...

Prices of household durable goods were up 11.8%, their biggest rise since March 1975, driven by costs of transportation, raw materials and ...

The surge in edible and crude oil prices are bound to feed into headline inflation, which has already breached the upper tolerance limit of...

But a global resurgence in coronavirus infections has made the outlook highly uncertain, keeping governments and central banks under pressu...

The contraction in the world's third-largest economy adds to growing signs of weakness globally, with China and Europe losing momentum.

Governor Haruhiko Kuroda and the policy board kept the interest rate on a share of bank reserves unchanged at minus 0.1 per cent.

Exports climbed 6.4% in January from a year earlier, the first rise in eight months. Imports increased 7.3%.

Japan's economy surged in the first three months of the year, data showed Thursday, marking the fourth straight quarter of expansion as the...

Japan's exports soared at the fastest pace in about three decades last month, helping the world's number two economy to extend a recovery f...

Japan Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama unveiled a record budget of 92.3 trillion yen ($1 trillion) aimed at shifting spending toward Japan’s h...

Japanese industrial output jumped 5.9% in May as car and electronic production pulled out of a deep slump, although an inventory build-up i...

Mizuho Financial Group Inc, Japan’s second-largest bank by revenue, said it may consider buying Citigroup Inc’s local brokerage and asset-m...

Japan cut its view on the economy, dropping the word "recovery" for the first time in nearly five years, as high raw material costs and a g...

Japan’s economic expansion may lose pace in the coming months largely due to a slowdown in exports, but a rebound in consumption and robust...