Japan's core consumer inflation hit a more than two-year high of 3.5% in April, well exceeding the BOJ's 2% target, due to a ...

Interest-rate futures showed chances of three or more cuts this year at around 35% Thursday, up from about 29% Wednesday and 22% at the end of last week, according to CME Group. In focus this morning ...

The greenback is firmer against the G10 currencies, but mixed against the emerging market currencies, where the euro's pullback is a drag on central European currencies. Click to read.

Strength in chip makers on Tuesday boosted technology stocks and supported gains in the broader market. Stocks extended their gains on signs of a healthy US labor market after the Apr JOLTS job ...

Gender inequality is very high in Japan in both labor market opportunities and in the household division of labor. More than 50 percent of women are irregularly employed with very low annual ...

NEW YORK--The yen fell against the dollar on Tuesday, giving back a chunk of its sharp gains in the prior session sparked by suspected intervention by Japanese authorities, while U.S. economic ...

Demographic change has been a driving force in Japan’s labor market for several decades. Japan’s potential labor force—those between ages 15 and 64 as a share of the total population—peaked in 1991–93 ...

While public acceptance of large-scale immigration has been slow to develop in Japan, many sectors facing acute labor shortages ... training and flexibility to change jobs within the same ...