The strain on households is real. Japan’s Engel coefficient, which measures food as a proportion of household spending, is at ...

The Japanese yen began steadily depreciating last year after the Bank of Japan brought an end to negative interest rates and ...

Japan sank into a trade deficit of 2.2 trillion yen ($15 billion) for the first six month of this year, according to ...

The yen weakened against most G-10 and Asian currencies ahead of Japan’s Upper House elections on July 20.

Japan's trade surplus in June shrank 30.8 percent from a year earlier to 153.1 billion yen ($1 billion) as automobile and ...

Japan's exports fell for a second straight month in June, data showed on Thursday, underscoring the mounting strain that ...

Japan's Liberal Democratic Party ruling coalition may lose its majority in the upper house in an election on Sunday, which ...

The Australian dollar slides after jobs data badly misses forecasts and unemployment hits highs not seen since late 2021.