Japanese retail sales rose 0.5 per cent in July from a year earlier, up for the first time in four months, government data showed on Friday, a sign consumption is gradually picking up months after a s…
Japanese retail sales rose 0.5 per cent in July from a year earlier, up for the first time in four months, government data showed on Friday, a sign consumption is gradually picking up months after a s…
Supermarket sales in Japan fell 2.1 percent in July from a year earlier on a same-store basis, declining for the fourth consecutive month since the 1 April consumption tax hike, an industry body said …
The Japanese economy shrank at an annual pace of 6.8 percent in the second quarter after spending got slammed by a sales tax hike that kicked in from April, government figures showed Wednesday, keepin…
The five biggest convenience store operators in Japan claimed more than 90 percent of the market by sales for the first time in fiscal 2013. Sales for all Japanese convenience store locations tot…
Japan’s inflation came in as expected in June, data showed on Friday, boosted by the consumption tax hike that took effect in April.
Nationwide core consumer price index (CPI) rose 3.3 percent i…
Japan’s core consumer prices rose 3.4 percent in May from a year earlier, data on Friday showed, rising at their fastest pace since April 1982.
The rise in the core consumer price index (CPI), w…
Sales at supermarkets in Japan fell 2.2 percent in May from a year earlier on a same-store basis – the second consecutive monthly drop following the 1 April tax hike, an industry body said on Mo…
The retail industry is entering into a period of major transformation. In addition to traditional entities such as department stores, supermarkets and convenience stores, new retail business forms are…
Japan needs people spending with confidence if a radical strategy adopted by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is to succeed in breaking the economy free of two decades of deflation and sub-par growth.
Govern…
Japan’s retail sales tumbled 4.4 percent on year in April as a rise in the country’s consumption tax weighed on spending, data on Thursday showed.
The number compared with analyst expectat…