On top of changing ingredients or reducing portion sizes, firms have given unusual price boosts to goods such as cooking oil, snacks and popular instant ...

On top of changing ingredients or reducing portion sizes, firms have implemented unusual price hikes to goods such as cooking oil, snacks and popular instant ...

The news adds pressure on policymakers to ramp up fiscal stimulus to support Japan's economy.

The downwardly revised growth is bad news for policymakers tasked with keeping the country's fragile recovery on track.

The figure would be nearly 300% more than the current 1.72 million foreign workers who make up about 2.5% of the workforce.