The yen came under pressure on Friday heading into Sunday's upper house election in which Japan's ruling party looks ...

The strain on households is real. Japan’s Engel coefficient, which measures food as a proportion of household spending, is at ...

The dollar headed for a second straight weekly gain against major peers, buoyed by some solid U.S. economic data that ...

The Swiss luxury group’s Japan sales declined 15% year-on-year in the fiscal first-quarter, even as wider group sales rose.

More than 20 million foreign visitors arrived in Japan from January to June 2025, a new high for the first six months of the ...

Japan last intervened to support its currency during the Asian financial crisis in 1998. But it had intervened more recently — in November 2011 — to prevent the yen appreciating too rapidly ...

Now, though, just as Japan’s stock market is entering a new era of strength, its currency has collapsed. The yen briefly touched a 34-year low compared to the U.S. dollar this week.

Japan announced on Thursday that it had intervened to prop up the value of the yen for the first time in 24 years, seeking to stanch the currency’s continuing slide against the dollar.

Data from Japan's Ministry of Finance on Friday confirmed the country's first currency intervention since 2022, after the yen plunged to a 34-year-low in April. The ministry on Friday stated Japan ...

The Japanese yen began steadily depreciating last year after the Bank of Japan brought an end to negative interest rates and ...

Japan’s currency was one of the first challengers to the U.S. dollar—why 90s predictions of a ‘yen bloc’ fell apart Paul Blustein Updated March 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM ...

Japan was believed to have been selling dollar-denominated assets it holds, such as US Treasuries, Japanese news agency Kyodo reported. Japan last intervened to support its currency during the ...