The Bank of Japan may raise interest rates in March if U.S. President Donald Trump pushes through on his tariff threats and ...

BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda issued a mild warning on Friday that it could increase bond buying if "abnormal" market moves trigger ...

Investors in Japan's government bond market are getting a glimpse of life without heavy intervention by the Bank of Japan, ...

Japan’s inflation surged in January, with consumer prices rising 4% year over year—the highest level since early 2023. This ...

Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda promised to respond to abnormal rises in bond yields, as expectations for monetary tightening ...

Core inflation — which excludes prices of fresh food — rose to 3.2% from 3% in the prior month and beat economists' ...

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 ...

(Bloomberg) -- The Bank of Japan’s most hawkish board member Naoki Tamura flagged the need for two or more interest rate hikes by early next year to contain upside risks for prices.

A hawkish member of the Bank of Japan’s policy board on Thursday called for potentially faster interest-rate increases, sending the yen to its strongest level against the dollar in eight weeks.

TOKYO :The Bank of Japan will continue to raise interest rates if underlying inflation accelerates toward its 2 per cent target as projected, a senior central bank official said on Wednesday.

More importantly, the same sample base earnings, which is the preferred measure of the BoJ, rose even stronger to 5.2% (vs a revised 3.7% in November, 3.6% market consensus). Base earings have risen ...