The yen is on track for its fourth straight weekly gain against the dollar as spending data on Friday added to signs that the ...

The Bank of Japan is increasingly blaming chronic labor shortages, not stagnant demand, as the main reason for its weak ...

Gita Gopinath, the First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said Friday that “Japan’s ...

Nada Choueiri, Deputy Director of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Asia-Pacific Department and its mission chief for ...

The Bank of Japan is likely to raise interest rates again this year and see borrowing costs reach levels deemed neutral to ...

The yen could strengthen beyond 150 against the dollar as the BOJ moves against the global tide of rate cuts, said SMBC Nikko Securities.

The yen climbed to a nine-week high as market players piled on bets for more interest rate hikes in Japan this year, while ...

Japanese household spending rose for the first time in five months in year-on-year terms in December and at a much ...

Consumer spending climbed 2.7% in December from a year earlier, data from the internal affairs ministry showed on Friday, ...

Japan's upcoming spring wage discussions, also known as the "shunto" negotiations, will be in focus for investors watching ...

NEW YORK/GDANSK >> The yen touched an eight-week high versus the dollar today after a Bank of Japan policy board member ...