Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has promised to revitalise depressed rural regions and to address the “quiet emergency” of ...

A hotter-than-expected inflation reading from Japan on Friday increased expectations for an interest-rate hike in the country, sending the yen to a six-week high. The dollar sank to as low as 149.56 ...

The Japanese yen rose to a six-week high against the dollar Friday. While trading was thin because of the Black Friday ...

Speculation that the Bank of Japan was headed for a December interest rate increase after a hot inflation reading drove the ...

Japan's unpopular minority government approved on Friday an extra budget to help pay for a massive stimulus package after the ...

The yen jumped more than 1% against the U.S. dollar to a six-week high on Friday after faster-than-expected inflation in ...

Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) said on Friday it would spend about 99.7 billion yen ($664 million) to turn ...

Asian shares slipped on Friday while the yen was aiming for its best week in four months as strong local inflation data had ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government finalised a $92 billion supplementary budget on Friday to shield households from rising ...

The yen rallied Friday after forecast-busting inflation data out of Tokyo boosted talk of another Japanese interest rate cut ...

Asian shares rose as Tokyo's strong inflation data suggested a possible Bank of Japan rate hike. The yen hit a four-month ...