Uniqlo's bullish outlook comes as Japan is on the brink of falling back into deflation with price rises stuck at zero because of sliding oil prices and subdued demand. Household spending has also not ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has cleared the key threshold for the government to officially declare an end to long-term price deflation, economy minister Ryosei Akazawa said on Friday. The remark ...

It took more than thirty years, but Japan may finally be on the cusp of a new economic era. After decades of deflation, stagnation, and demographic headwinds, the world’s third-largest economy is ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's three largest banking groups posted record annual net profit in the last financial year, benefitting from increased corporate activity due to the end of deflation in Japan.

Japan has experienced a state of mild deflation since the mid-1990s. In fact, the Japanese CPI has been almost always slightly negative since 1998, except for a brief period before the 2007-08 global ...