Economics

Japan’s Deeper Inflation Trend Shows Price Growth Spreading

A cyclist pases a clothing shop in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, Japan.

Photographer: Soichiro Koriyama/Bloomberg
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Japan’s prices are showing more signs of rising on a wider basis as soaring commodity prices and a weak yen force companies to pass higher costs onto consumers at a pace not seen in decades.