If leveraged trading was the kindling, the Japanese yen’s abrupt uptrend was the match. Thankfully, the fire may burn out as quickly as it started. ... An end to 17-year-old policy in Japan.

One 43-year-old Japanese investor who asked not to be named, a former operator of a cram school in the Tokyo area, said that despite feeling “scared and wanting to escape,” he bought stocks on ...

Rice prices in Japan have started to ease, falling below Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s target of below 4,000 yen for a five-kilogram bag.

Japanese 10,000 yen notes. RICHARD A. BROOKS/AFP via Getty Images. ... But sudden confusion about whether the yen is about to become overvalued (like the German deutsche mark of old) ...

Though it recovered in the second half of the year, Japan’s economy barely grew in 2024 as a depreciated yen fueled inflation and strained households. By River Akira Davis and Hisako Ueno ...

Japanese stock futures slid, while the yen rallied, after Shigeru Ishiba was elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. ... The 67-year-old narrowly beat Sanae Takaichi, ...