While the tight labour market is not a new trend, the BOJ's more vocal concerns about the resulting wage and inflationary pressures mean it will be more inclined to look past economic weakness as ...

"If (the economy) proceeds as we expect, we see the BOJ continuing to implement gradual policy rate increases" she said. After exiting a massive monetary stimulus last year, the BOJ raised short ...

Japan has “completely” ended deflation and it’s absolutely natural for the central bank to proceed with rate hikes to normalize policy, according to former BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda ...

Nada Choueiri, Deputy Director of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Asia-Pacific Department and its mission chief for Japan, said on Friday that the “Bank of Japan (BoJ) is likely to ...

TOKYO : The Bank of Japan must raise short-term interest rates to at least 1 per cent by the second half of fiscal 2025 to contain upside inflation risks, its board member Naoki Tamura said on ...

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is the central bank of Japan. Established under the Bank of Japan Act in 1882, it is a juridical entity and neither a government agency nor a private corporation.

Gains gathered momentum Wednesday when Japan’s wage growth jumped by the most in nearly three decades, and accelerated further Thursday as a BOJ hawk said that borrowing costs should be doubled ...

“The BoJ has said that it won’t raise interest rates unless there’s demand-driven inflation,” Keidanren head Masakazu Tokura said yesterday. “I believe there are signs that such ...

Prime Minister James Marape has reaffirmed his government’s commitment to strengthening superannuation and voluntary savings for Papua New Guineans, announcing key reforms aimed at ensuring financial ...