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By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government will make raising wages a top priority in its economic policy next year, Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Seiji Kihara said on Wednesday. "The biggest challenge for Japan's economy is a lack o

The two items that topped Nikkei Marketing Journal's annual rankings were not products per se but product attributes reflecting consumers' response to inflation.

Tourism to Hawaii is back, but visits from Japan remain down 90%. State officials are counting on a return of Japanese tourists to stave off a downturn next year.

Top 3 words of the year in Japan in 2022 come from issues such as food waste, economic decline and reference the assassination of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

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Random trips, where train and air companies offer tickets to randomly selected destinations, are becoming popular in Japan – and could help the country’s tourism industry recover from COVID-19

The National Travel Discount — available to Japan residents only — will provide the equivalent of up to ¥11,000 in discounts and coupons per traveler per day.

Surging material costs and the weakening yet push costs up at a scale unseen since the bursting of the bubble economy, analysts say.

The number of Japanese tourists visiting South Korea jumped in August following a resumption of visa-free travel.

The Korea Tourism Organization says 26,482 Japanese tourists came during the month. The number is 11.7 times that of a year earlier.

Ski resorts in Japan are increasingly introducing "glamping" to make use of the extensive land they occupy all year round, with tourists finding the spots a sanctuary to avoid crowds while reconnecting with nature.

The Japanese government is concerned about the rise of the "sober curious" movement among young people, as tax revenues from alcoholic beverages dry up. So, the government is launching a "drink more" campaign. Correspondent Lucy Craft reports.

Japanese retail sales rose for a ninth straight month in November, data showed on Tuesday, as the lifting of COVID-19 border controls and the government's domestic travel subsidy helped consumer demand. But from the previous month, sales fell from October, with price increases in daily necessities weighing on Japanese households as the nation's core consumer inflation rate hit a fresh 40-year high, indicating price hikes were broadening. A recovery in private consumption, which makes up more than half of Japan's economy, is key to driving growth in the economy, which unexpectedly shrank in the third quarter.

International Business News: Prices in Japan rose at their fastest pace since 1981 in November, data showed Friday, fuelled in part by higher energy costs.

Japan's core consumer inflation hit a fresh four-decade high as companies continued to pass on rising costs to households, data showed, a sign price hikes were broadening and could keep the central bank under pressure to whittle down massive stimulus.

Revenge travelers are driving global recovery, but far less is said about those emerging from the pandemic with little to no interest to travel again.

Core consumer prices in Japan rose 3.6 percent in October from a year earlier, government data showed on Nov. 18, well above the Bank of Japan's 2 percent target.

Besides crippling Japan’s tourism recovery, China’s Covid-19 policies prevent Chinese travelers from taking advantage of the massively weak JPY – a rare situation that may never occur again.

On October 11th, Japan will grant visa-free entry and independent travel after over two years of border restrictions. Here's how the Japanese hotel market has reacted.

The Hawai‘i Tourism Authority has issued a Request for Proposals for strategic visitor education and destination brand marketing and management services for the Japan market.

Prices are rising much more slowly in Japan, the result of a policy of monetary easing. But with stagnating wages, people are still feeling the pressure.

Bourgogne wine exports to Japan last year have surged to a 10-year high, propped up by strong demand from the country’s female drinkers and young urbanites, the latest data from Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) has shown.