The Bank of Japan is likely to raise interest rates again this year and see borrowing costs reach levels deemed neutral to ...

The Bank of Japan must raise short-term interest rates to at least 1% by the second half of fiscal 2025 to contain inflation ...

The Bank of Japan is increasingly blaming chronic labour shortages, not stagnant demand, as the main reason for its weak ...

Japan has “completely” ended deflation and it’s absolutely natural for the central bank to proceed with rate hikes to ...

The yen is on track for its fourth straight weekly gain against the dollar as spending data on Friday added to signs that the ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Tuesday the central bank will aim to achieve 2% inflation, as ...

BOJ executives probably want to raise short-term rates at least to 1.5% by the end of fiscal 2026, so they have scope to reduce borrowing costs when the economy faces another downturn, Sakurai said.

The yen hit a two-month high in the upper 151 range against the U.S. dollar Thursday in Tokyo, as speculation grows that the ...

The deputy governor reiterated that the BOJ would consider additional rate increases if economic and prices developments align with expectations. However, he didn't provide any hints on the timing or ...

The BOJ decided on Friday to offer no new lending from July under its fund-provisioning program to stimulate bank lending. The program’s outstanding loans stood at ¥77 trillion ($496 billion ...

Naoki Tamura said the BOJ must raise interest rates to at least 1% by the second half of the fiscal year beginning in April, a remark that reinforced bets of a near-term rate hike.

The Bank of Japan is increasingly blaming chronic labor shortages, not stagnant demand, as the main reason for its weak ...