Erica Yokoyama

1 week ago | bloomberglinea.com | Takashi Umekawa |Erica Yokoyama |Kiyoshi Ota

Bloomberg — El Ministerio de Finanzas de Japón está considerando recortar su emisión de bonos superlargos a partir de julio, según un borrador de un plan revisado de emisión de bonos visto por Bloomberg. El ministerio va a proponer recortar la emisión de bonos a 20, 30 y 40 años en 100.000 millones de yenes (US$690 millones) cada uno por subasta hasta finales de marzo de 2026, según mostró el jueves el borrador del plan.

1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Takashi Umekawa |Erica Yokoyama

(Bloomberg) -- Japan’s finance ministry is considering trimming its issuance of super-long bonds starting in July, according to a draft of a revised bond issuance plan seen by Bloomberg. The ministry is set to propose cutting issuance of 20-, 30- and 40-year bonds by ¥100 billion ($690 million) each per auction through the end of March 2026, the draft plan showed Thursday. To offset the decrease, the ministry is considering increasing issuance of 2-year bonds and other shorter-dated debts.

2 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Shery Ahn |Erica Yokoyama

Katsunobu Kato(Bloomberg) -- Japan’s finance minister said discussions with market participants are a key factor for ensuring government bonds are bought and sold stably ahead of a closely watched ministry meeting with investors. “We are engaged in thoughtful and careful dialogue with the market, and it is incumbent upon us to make sure that government bonds are being bought,” Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Friday.

2 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Erica Yokoyama

(Bloomberg) -- Japan’s largest businesses turned pessimistic for the first time in more than a year as Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs upended key sectors, a development that could complicate the Bank of Japan’s policy path. The Business Sentiment Index for large firms registered minus 1.9 for the April-June quarter, slipping into negative territory for the first time since the first quarter of 2024, according to a Finance Ministry survey released Thursday.

2 weeks ago | bloomberg.com | Sakura Murakami |Erica Yokoyama |Eddy Duan

A year ago, a 5kg bag of rice cost about ¥2,130. In May this year it had doubled to roughly ¥4,280. (Bloomberg) -- A shortage of rice in Japan —  a problem that has been in the making since 2023 — has caused the price of the household staple to surge, exacerbating the country’s cost of living challenges and fueling resentment among the population. As of June, a 5-kilogram bag of rice cost on average ¥4223 ($29.15) — almost double what it did a year ago.