• The Japanese government has been trying to boost consumer prices for nearly a decade, but economists say that the global inflation wave is unlikely to arrive. | BLOOMBERG
    The Japanese government has been trying to boost consumer prices for nearly a decade, but economists say that the global inflation wave is unlikely to arrive. | BLOOMBERG
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Even as prices for goods rise worldwide, Japan’s long-held bid to boost inflation remains a distant goal.

The government announced Friday that Japan’s core consumer prices, excluding volatile fresh food, dropped by 0.2% from a year earlier, marking 12 straight months of decline and highlighting a continuing challenge for the nation’s policymakers.

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