Share prices have soared in Japan recently on hopes that conservative lawmaker Sanae Takaichi, who was chosen Tuesday to be ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan can raise interest rates if prospects of durably meeting its 2% inflation target improve, but would struggle to justify doing so this year given weak signs in the ...

(Bloomberg) — Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda will likely face a tougher political environment in the second half of his five-year term starting Thursday after the ruling party leadership victory of ...

Bank of Japan policy board Member Asahi Noguchi suggested increased pressure to raise interest rates, adding fuel to expectations for central bank action in October. “Various economic indicators for ...

The USD/JPY exchange rate slipped ahead of the upcoming Federal Reserve interest rate decision. The Bank of Japan will deliver its interest rate decision on Friday. The BoJ and Fed divergence favors ...

Growing market speculation over a potential Bank of Japan rate hike in October is underestimating the degree of uncertainty wrought by Donald Trump’s tariff campaign, according to a former BOJ chief ...

One of the biggest stories emerging from the Far East this month is the imminent launch of a blockchain-based version of the Japanese yen, one of the world’s major fiat currencies. The timing for this ...

TOKYO, Aug 1 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan laid the groundwork this week for resuming interest rate hikes by spelling out explicitly for the first time the risks that persistent food price rises fan ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan will gradually sell exchange-traded funds (ETF) in the market, rather than opt for other ideas like transferring them to government entities, when it decides to ...

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 ...

Bank of Japan policy board member Asahi Noguchi struck a more cautious tone about the pace of the bank’s future interest-rate hikes, saying it should take “a measured, step-by-step approach.” In a ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan's top economist, Koji Nakamura, was named new executive director overseeing monetary policy and financial markets on Tuesday, the central bank said in a statement.