The bond market in Japan is cracking under pressure, and all fingers are pointing to one thing: the upcoming Upper House election on July 20.

Heading into the most consequential Japanese upper house election in memory and a possible defeat for the coalition of Prime ...

Fukoku Life Insurance may increase its purchases of Japanese super-long bonds just as the nation’s debt market trembled this week ahead of upper house elections.

William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades." ...

Investors are bracing for a potential triple dip in Japanese bonds, stocks and the yen after Sunday’s upper house election, ...

Opposition parties argue that cutting or scrapping the consumption tax would support growth and ease strains on households after three years of consumer price inflation above the Bank of Japan’s 2 per ...

This Sunday's Upper House elections in Japan are weighing on Japan's government bonds and the yen. Fears of political uncertainty, looser fiscal policy and also the effects of earlier BoJ policy ...

Consumers' inflation expectations, by some measures, are also the highest in decades. Inflation has been above the Fed's 2% ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan must be mindful of the risk of a credit rating downgrade if an expansion in public debt runs out of control, the head of the country's banking lobby said, as lawmakers ramp up ...

Japan’s 10-year bond yield has surged to its highest level since 2008, driven by expectations of post-election fiscal expansion, potential consumption tax cuts, and rising trade tensions with the U.S.

Treasury yield fell. Commerzbank expects slightly lower 10-year Treasury and Bund yields by the end of the third quarter.