TOKYO—Consumer inflation in the Tokyo metropolitan area picked up in March due to higher food prices, staying above the Bank of Japan’s target of 2%. Consumer prices excluding volatile fresh ...

If Japanese curry rice is your go-to dinner in Japan ... ll have to raise prices again." Kobayashi Tomoya is struggling to balance food quality and keeping prices down. In Tokyo's Edogawa Ward ...

A grocery store is seen in Tokyo in this Nov. 11, 2021 file photo. (Mainichi) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The number of food and beverage ... of Representatives. Japan's consumer prices in 2024 rose 2.7 ...

TOKYO: Rice prices in Japan last month were almost twice what they were a year earlier, official data showed Friday (Apr 18), as core inflation accelerated in the world's number four economy.

Tokyo (CNN) — It’s eaten with almost every meal, used to make sushi, made into sweets, fermented into alcohol and offered to the spirits at religious ceremonies. Rice is everywhere in the diet ...

TOKYO—The Bank of Japan may consider monetary tightening if a surge in food prices causes broader and stronger inflation, the central bank governor said Wednesday, adding fuel to expectations ...