TOKYO -- With the stock market plunging to 16-year lows, talk of deflationary dangers and a morass of confusion in its political leadership, Japan appears to be headed toward a serious economic crisis ...

(Bloomberg) -- New Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, speaking in his first press conference as national leader, pledged to keep up efforts to decisively end deflation and called on the Bank of ...

(Bloomberg) -- New Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba emphasized in his first speech to parliament that his top economic priority is to defeat deflation and put the nation on a stable growth track ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has cleared the key threshold for the government to officially declare an end to long-term price deflation, economy minister Ryosei Akazawa said on Friday. The remark ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about economics, markets and policymaking throughout Asia. After 25 years, trillions of dollars of monetary stimulus and ...

During his Nov. 13 visit to Tokyo, U.S. President Barack Obama emphasized that Japan, as the world’s second largest economy, has a special role in the global marketplace. One week later, it’s becoming ...

(AP) Japan reports that its chronic deflation persisted in January, with consumer prices falling 0.2 percent from a year earlier, though the employment situation showed a modest improvement. Prime ...

After years of wandering in the policy wilderness, Japan’s financial wizards think they have discovered what’s really wrong with Japan’s economy. It’s deflation. In January, Prime Minister Junichiro ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese core consumer prices fell at the fastest annual pace on record in July, potentially putting pressure on a reluctant Bank of Japan to rein in deepening deflation. The ...

The BOJ just said they are out of deflation. That's not incredible news? By the way inflation jumped 100bp in three months but all the major publications reported that it's still down. Does everyone ...

EVANSVILLE, Ind./TOKYO (Reuters) - U.S. Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan officials said they were on alert for signs of deflation and grappling with how the central banks would keep it at bay as ...

“Goldman Sachs has suggested that investors look to Japan’s ‘lost decade’ as a guide to the future of the Chinese stockmarket.” – The Economist (Jan. 11, 2025 After two decades of rapid expansion, ...