Figures released on Friday show that inflation in Japan slowed down last month. But the price of rice, which is in short supply, rose at the fastest rate in 49 years.
TOKYO - Japan's wholesale inflation accelerated in September but prices of imported goods slid due to the yen's rebound, data showed on Thursday, suggesting that price pressures from raw material ...
Japan's core consumer inflation hit 2.8 per cent in August, exceeding the BOJ's 2 per cent target for well over two years, keeping alive expectations for further interest rate hikes.
The policy should improve the Japanese economy as a whole. Otherwise, it will just make inflation worse." Japan, instead, "should adopt expansionary fiscal policy, utilizing government bonds to ...