Minimum hourly wages across Japan are set to break the 1,000 yen ($6.78) barrier in all 47 prefectures for the first time to ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's rising minimum wage is likely to push up inflation mainly through higher services prices, the central bank said on Friday, signalling confidence over prospects that inflation ...

Could you live like these Japanese minimalists? Then again, maybe you already do. In Japan, a recent buzz word is “minimalist” (ミニマリスト or “minimarisuto”). The word has a long history and various ...

Japan's minimum wage is 798 JPY ($6.52) per hour, lower than many other advanced countries, including the United States, and among the lowest relative to the average wage (see chart). For a country ...

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Japan will raise its minimum hourly wage by a record 6.3% to ¥1,121 ($7.56), reinforcing the nation’s wage-price cycle and supporting the case for the Bank of Japan to keep hiking rates. Prefectures ...

Japan’s minimum hourly wage of ¥780 ($6.30) is about enough to buy a bowl of noodles. A 2.1-percent bump last year didn’t keep pace with inflation, and a possible 2.3-percent raise this year would be ...