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Japan’s finance minister has highlighted the growing influence of cross-market volatility on interest rates, noting that financial turbulence across global markets creates greater and faster impacts on borrowing costs. Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama demonstrated to parliament that current financial market activity shows how a single market movement now affects all

Japan is likely to feel the pinch of rising prices for plastics and metals as the Iran conflict drags on, disrupting energy markets worldwide and supply chains for industrial raw materials. Supply routes for factory essentials twist tighter the longer things drag on overseas. When oil prices shift, plastic production

Fuel prices began to steady when Japan tapped into stockpiled crude, responding to ripples from unrest near Iran. With tankers stuck or rerouted following chaos at the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for oil, pressure built on supplies worldwide. That passage sees nearly a fifth of traded petroleum pass through

Japan continues to experience wage increases in 2026 as farms raise wages to cover labor shortage and rising costs. However, the benefits of these increased wages are being tested by the rising energy costs due to the geopolitical conflicts in the Middle East. Japan’s major firms have agreed to raise

Japan has reported its exports surged nearly 17% in January from a year earlier, lifted by seasonal factors and strong demand in China and other Asian markets.   Imports fell to 2.5% from the same month a year earlier to 10.3 trillion yen ($67 billion), while exports climbed 16.8% to

Japan’s life insurance market is expected to boom despite recent difficulties, according to GlobalData. Gross written premium (GWP) is forecast to grow at an average annual rate of 5.4 per cent through 2030. After a contraction in 2024, the insurance market is gowth remain slow in 2025. Finally, it is

Japan’s exports decreased in December 2025, rising 5.1% year over year, below expectations. The main reason was a sharp decline in exports to the United States, which fell 11.1% after rising in November for the first time since March. This unexpected drop between Japan and the U.S. is still unbelievable,

Japan is turning its attention to the country’s massive pool of household savings, estimated at nearly $7 trillion, as it seeks fresh demand for government bonds amid reduced central bank support. Policymakers are exploring new bond products and incentives to encourage retail investors to play a longer-term role in the

Japan’s Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is nearing completion of a deal to acquire a 20% stake in Indian non-bank financial company Shriram Finance, with an estimated value exceeding 500 billion yen ($3.22 billion), as reported by Bloomberg News on Monday. Bloomberg mentioned that MUFG aims to announce this acquisition