Ms Takaichi, a hawkish conservative, took office in October after winning an internal contest to lead the ruling Liberal ...

The BOJ also upgraded its GDP forecast for the 2025 fiscal year to 0.9%, and also raised its GDP projection for the 2026 ...

The Bank of Japan’s first meeting of the year took place against a dramatic backdrop of bond market gyrations, worries about ...

Japan’s annual inflation rate decreased to 2.1% in December 2025, down from 2.9% in November and the lowest since March 2022.

Japan's core consumer inflation slowed in the year to December but stayed above the central bank's 2% target, data showed on ...

Japan's headline inflation rate slowed sharply to 2.1%, its lowest level since March 2022, down from 2.9% in November, as ...

This week’s bond-market hubbub highlights the perils of a much-needed return to normalcy.

The Japanese government largely retained its cautiously optimistic view of the economy in its economic report published on ...

The latest projection shows a primary budget deficit of 800 billion yen ($5 billion) for fiscal 2026 starting April, compared ...

In the 1980s, Japan was unstoppable - until the bubble burst. This video explores how real estate and stock market speculation drove the Japanese economy to dizzying heights, and how the crash that ...

Less than a month after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said the nation was set to achieve its first primary balance surplus in 28 years, the latest official estimates indicate that her recent ...

The three-wire cable car route to the summit of Fansipan – the highest peak in Vietnam and Indochina – makes a strong ...