The Bank of Japan raised its key interest rate to about 0.5% from 0.25% Friday, noting that inflation is holding at a ...

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Japan's core consumer prices rose 3.0% in December from a year earlier to mark the fastest annual pace in 16 months, data showed on Friday, keeping alive market expectations that the central bank will ...

Japan's much-loved "tonkatsu" pork cutlets come with a mound of freshly shredded cabbage, but a surge in the price of the humble vegetable has prompted chef Katsumi Shinagawa to skimp on servings.

Japan’s annual rate of consumer price inflation accelerated to 3.0 percent in December from 2.7 percent the month before, government data showed Friday. The core Consumer Price Index (CPI), which ...

Japan's core consumer prices rose 3.0 per cent in December year-on-year to mark the fastest annual pace in 16 months, likely cementing a central bank rate hike later in the day and retaining bets that ...

A Chinese man Thursday was sentenced to death for killing a man in a knife attack near Shanghai last summer. A Japanese mother and her child were also injured on a Japanese school bus in Suzhou, ...

Ueda and his fellow board members lifted the overnight call rate by a quarter-percentage point to 0.5% at the end of a two-day meeting.

Gyuniku in Sydney's CBD has been attracting huge crowds for its epic buffet-style offering, complete with full-blood wagyu MB9+ sourced from Japan, nori rolls, sashimi, and nigiri, all made in-house ...

Asian shares have advanced after U.S. stocks rose to a record and the Bank of Japan raised its key lending rate.

Price increases of rice and vegetables such as cabbage pushed up overall sales while the number of purchased items continued ...