Fukoku Life Insurance may increase its purchases of Japanese super-long bonds just as the nation’s debt market trembled this week ahead of upper house elections.

The bond market in Japan is cracking under pressure, and all fingers are pointing to one thing: the upcoming Upper House election on July 20.

Investors are bracing for a potential triple dip in Japanese bonds, stocks and the yen after Sunday’s upper house election, ...

William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades." ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan must be mindful of the risk of a credit rating downgrade if an expansion in public debt runs out of control, the head of the country's banking lobby said, as lawmakers ramp up ...

Consumers' inflation expectations, by some measures, are also the highest in decades. Inflation has been above the Fed's 2% ...

Opposition parties argue that cutting or scrapping the consumption tax would support growth and ease strains on households after three years of consumer price inflation above the Bank of Japan’s 2 per ...

Japan’s 10-year bond yield has surged to its highest level since 2008, driven by expectations of post-election fiscal expansion, potential consumption tax cuts, and rising trade tensions with the U.S.

Wall Street banks did surprisingly well in investment banking last quarter. All five major banks beat analyst forecasts when they reported earnings this week. President Trump’s tariffs had caused a ...

Japan's shaky minority government is poised for another setback in an upper house vote on Sunday, an outcome that could jolt ...

Consumers’ inflation expectations, by some measures, are also the highest in decades. Inflation has been above the Fed’s 2% ...