Japan's top currency diplomat Atsushi Mimura said authorities are "always watching markets" as a renewed build-up of yen ...

Japan posted a trade deficit for a second straight month in August, the Finance Ministry said Wednesday, despite signs of ...

The yen strengthened slightly in the immediate aftermath of the Bank of Japan leaving its benchmark interest rate unchanged.

Two months ago, some in Tokyo joked that we no longer carry yen in our wallets, but Japanese “pesos” or “rupiah.” Now, with ...

Supermarket shelves across Japan were also emptied of rice for weeks this summer. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The yen pared its losses on Friday as the Bank of Japan (BOJ) sounded optimistic about growth and signalled it will be ...

Japan Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Tuesday the government will continue to analyse the impact of recent currency ...

The Bank of Japan then decided to adopt currency intervention as a strategy to mitigate its currency devaluation.

There was a bit of nervousness ahead of the Bank of Japan's Friday policy decision. It will take investors awhile to forget the day in late July when the central bank's interest-rate hike unwound the ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's fund management body donated a total of 100 million yen (approx. $700,000) to the Liberal ...

Traders betting on further recovery in Japanese equities are looking to any steer from the Bank of Japan that may cap the yen ...

Japanese inflation rose slightly in August, with prices up 2.8 percent year-on-year, official data showed Friday, hours ...