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While headline inflation cooled in February, underlying price pressure remains steady, raising concerns for households as real wages remain stagnant.

BUSINESS / Economy

Mar 21, 2025

Japan’s inflation slows less than expected, backing BOJ hikes

By Erica Yokoyama and Toru Fujioka

Consumer prices excluding fresh food rose 3.0% from a year ago in February, decelerating from a 3.2% pace in January.

A worker arranges cases of avocados at a packaging facility in Mexico on Tuesday. U.S. President Donald Trump has said he will follow through next month on twice-delayed plans to impose 25% levies on goods from Mexico as well as Canada.

BUSINESS / Economy

Mar 21, 2025

Trump trade upheaval leaves foreign central banks guessing

By Howard Schneider, Mark John and Karin Strohecker

The stagflationary direction noted of the U.S. outlook has central banks across the globe parsing what the fallout may mean for them.

U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell speaks at a news conference in Washington on Wednesday.

BUSINESS / Economy

Mar 20, 2025

Powell downplays growing risks, sees tariff impact as transitory

By Jonnelle Marte

His use of the word "transitory” was surprising because the Fed employed the same word when inflation exploded following the onset of COVID-19.

Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda speaks during a news conference in January in Tokyo.

BUSINESS / Economy

Mar 19, 2025

Bank of Japan holds steady at 0.5% as trade war escalates and inflation rises

By Kazuaki Nagata

The move was widely expected, with economists unanimous in seeing back-to-back rate increases as unlikely from the central bank, which made one in January.

Japan's shipments abroad have advanced in the first two months of this year, as Japanese companies brace for the rollout of higher tariffs in the United States.

BUSINESS / Economy

Mar 19, 2025

Japan’s exports rose more quickly in February ahead of Trump tariffs

By Yoshiaki Nohara

Global trade flows face potential major disruptions as the U.S. continues to escalate its tariff campaign, targeting nations where Japanese carmakers have manufacturing bases.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent walks to a television interview outside the White House in Washington on Friday. Bessent had indicated a possible delay in the activation of new reciprocal tariff rates on the United States' trading partners.

BUSINESS / Economy

Mar 19, 2025

Trump still intends for reciprocal tariffs to kick in on April 2

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had indicated a possible delay but the White House says trading partners would need to negotiate deals in advance to avoid new tariffs.

Shipping containers at a port in Long Beach, California. Higher tariffs will raise the cost of doing business in the U.S., raising the bar for Japanese companies to invest in America.

BUSINESS / Economy

Mar 18, 2025

Trump tariffs to raise bar to invest in the U.S., JETRO says

By Yoshiaki Nohara

Higher tariffs will raise the cost of doing business in the U.S. with more expensive materials and products, said JETRO’s chair, Norihiko Ishiguro.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Passengers that were on a morning train attacked by members of the Aum Shinrikyo group wait for medical assistance outside Kasumigaseki Station on March 20,1995.

The day a religious cult brought terror to Tokyo

By Alex K.T. Martin

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