Japan’s price growth in services hit 2% in July for the first time in 30 years, a long-awaited development for the central bank as it waits for evidence of sustainable inflation before laying out a ...

Japan's service robot industry is set to triple in size by 2030. The country has become a hotbed for service robotics—from restaurants to nursing homes. Japan is struggling with a rapidly aging ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's service sector activity returned to growth in April after stagnating the previous month, helped by improved orders, a stark contrast to continued weakness in manufacturing, a ...

An index measuring sentiment among service-sector firms, like taxi drivers and restaurants, stood at 45.6 in February, down 3.0 points from January and hitting the lowest level since July 2022, the ...

TOKYO, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Japan's services activity expanded at the slowest pace this year in October, a business survey showed on Monday, reinforcing concerns that the key sector propelling economic ...

A change in license plans has made it up to 50 times more expensive for Japanese game developers to use commercial fonts in ...

Activity in Japan’s service sector edged up to the strongest in almost a decade in March as the return of Chinese tourists boosted demand. The au Jibun Bank’s purchasing managers index of activity in ...