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  "id": 3843580,
  "title": "Tokyo core inflation accelerates in August, nears BOJ target",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/tokyo-core-inflation-accelerates-in-august-nears-boj-target",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-27T23:48:35.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Investing.com",
    "slug": "investing-com",
    "url": "https://www.investing.com/news/economy-news/tokyo-core-inflation-accelerates-in-august-nears-boj-target-4880359"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "On August 28, Reuters reported that core consumer prices in Tokyo increased by 1.8% in August compared to a year ago, inching closer to the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) 2% inflation target. This rise in the Tokyo core consumer price index (CPI), which excludes volatile fresh food costs, surpassed median market forecasts of a 1.7% gain. The index, which strips away the impact of fresh food and fuel, rose 2.0% in August from July's 1.8% increase. The data, considered a leading indicator of nationwide price trends, will be among the factors the BOJ will evaluate at its upcoming policy meeting on September 17-18. Following a rate hike to a 31-year high of 1% in June, the BOJ maintained steady monetary policy in July but issued its strongest comments yet on mounting inflation risk. Recent wholesale inflation, which surged to 7.2% in July from a year earlier, highlights mounting price pressures from the Middle East conflict, which analysts predict will gradually push up consumer prices. Sources have informed Reuters that the BOJ plans to raise rates as soon as September and may implement more aggressive hikes thereafter from the current roughly twice-a-year pace. Under the current normalization phase, the central bank has increased rates at a frequency of roughly twice a year.",
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        "title": "Tokyo core inflation accelerates in August, nears BOJ target",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/tokyo-core-inflation-accelerates-in-august-nears-boj-target-3848318",
        "published": "2026-08-27T23:45:00.000Z"
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