The Bank of Japan predicted growth of just 0.5 percent, cutting its previous forecast in half, and decided against another hike in interest rates. By River Akira Davis and Kiuko Notoya Reporting ...

Global warming added nearly 520 billion yen ($4.04 billion) to the economic damage wreaked by Typhoon No. 19 in eastern Japan in 2019, according to an international group of climate scientists.

The Bank of Japan on Thursday lowered its expectations for 2025 gross domestic product growth to an anemic 0.5%, down from the previous projection of +1.1%, made in January. It also cut its growth ...

According to the Japan Club of Guam, the annual Japanese Autumn Festival was moved to the spring season after concerns regarding the typhoon season. The festival was renamed the Guam Japan Festival.

The Bank of Japan kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged ... Ueda and his board kept the overnight call rate at 0.5% after its two-day meeting, according to a central bank policy statement ...

Pacific Daily News May 22, 2024 May 22, 2024 0 Pacific Daily News readers continue to contribute their photos from Typhoon Mawar, which brought powerful winds and torrential rain on May 24 ...

TOKYO, May 14 (Reuters) - Japan's wholesale inflation hit 4.0% in April as companies continued to pass on rising raw material and labour costs, data showed, underscoring price pressure that will ...

Typhoon Hinnamnor is the strongest global storm of 2022, and is forecasted to move gradually northward into the East China Sea. Evacuations and flight cancellations have been ordered in Japan’s ...

The Bank of Japan plans to launch its own survey on wage hikes to obtain data of small and midsize companies without labor unions affiliated with Rengo, the country's largest trade union group, ...

A hawkish member of Japan's ruling party on Wednesday came under fire for his statement that descriptions at a war memorial rewrote the history of the Himeyuri student corps, many of whom lost their ...

Economists expect tariffs to slash roughly 0.5 percentage point off Japan’s growth this fiscal year, according to a survey by the Japan Center for Economic Research. “Trouble is brewing for Japan’s ...

Loading "On tariffs, we've already taken immediate measures such as bypassing the U.S. when we export from Japan to Canada," Komatsu ... beating benchmark Nikkei 225's 0.4 per cent growth.