Major central banks have hiked their policy rates in the face of surging inflation since the Covid-19 pandemic — but the Bank of Japan has been an outlier. It has stayed put despite headline and core ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan may be behind the curve in dealing with the risk of high inflation, one private sector member of the government's top economic council was quoted as saying on ...

TOKYO, June 6 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan should continue to proceed with monetary tightening, which would support a "normalization of the yen's weakness" and rebalancing of bilateral trade, the U.S ...

TOKYO, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Some Bank of Japan board members, at a policy meeting in July, called for resuming interest rate hikes in the future, even as the board decided unanimously to keep borrowing ...

The US Treasury called on the Bank of Japan to raise interest rates to strengthen the yen, stepping much deeper into policy recommendations for Tokyo than before in its semiannual currency report.

TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan will continue raising interest rates if economic and price developments move in line with its forecasts, BOJ Deputy Governor Shinichi Uchida said, reaffirming the ...

The USD/JPY exchange rate pulled back slightly on Thursday as the market reacted the Federal Reserve and Bank of Japan (BoJ) interest rate decisions. It was trading at 148.75, a few points below this ...

The Bank of Japan ((BoJ)) kept its key short-term interest rate unchanged at 0.5% during its June 2025 meeting, maintaining the highest level since 2008 and aligning with market expectations. The ...

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is increasingly expected to raise its key interest rate at the October policy board meeting, as speculation intensifies on the back of fresh remarks from a former board member ...

On one side, we have the Federal Reserve preparing to cut rates as soon as this week. On the other side, the Bank of Japan is facing mounting pressure to raise interest rates. In the middle is a carry ...