Japan’s current account balance for March was released today, revealing figures that surpassed expectations. The actual ...

Between 1980 and 2010 Japan had been recording trade surpluses every year due to rising exports. However, the trade balance swung to deficit in 2011, as the Fukushima nuclear disaster forced the ...

As BoJ pivots and risk appetite climbs, USD/JPY gains momentum. This week’s data may reset expectations on rate paths.

A slew of post-inauguration policy announcements could introduce market volatility and provide economic clarity. The Bank of Japan is expected to raise interest rates by 25 basis points to 0.5% ...

Japan’s economy likely suffered a contraction in the first three months of this year, signaling underlying fragility even before U.S. tariff measures started hitting the country in earnest ...

Economic indicators rebounded temporarily from their ... for 10 straight months since August 2019, indicating that Japan is now in a recession. Members of the Cabinet Office’s Working Group ...

Japan's economy expanded an annualized 2.8% in the ... While the latest wage and household spending indicators showed encouraging signs, analysts have been wary of price pressures hindering ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer met with ...

Japan's index of coincident economic indicators in February fell at its fastest pace since the March 2011 earthquake, in a further sign of slowdown in the world's third-largest ...

Opposite Trump was Ryosei Akazawa, a close confidant of Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba who serves in the relatively junior cabinet position of economic revitalisation minister. Speaking to ...