Japan's central bank has increased the cost of borrowing to its highest level in 17 years after consumer price rises ...

The Bank of Japan looks set to raise interest rates this week unless Trump’s inauguration address as U.S. president on Monday rattles financial markets, say people familiar with the central bank’s ...

The Bank of Japan will continue to raise interest rates if underlying inflation accelerates toward its 2% target as projected ...

The fading shadow of reflationists in the Bank of Japan, and the latest addition to the board of an academic favouring an end ...

Underlying inflation in Japan is still slightly below the central bank’s target of 2%, Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda said, ...

Among the G10 central banks which oversee the world's most heavily-traded currencies, three of the four that met last month - ...

Japan's central bank has raised its key interest rate to about 0.5% from 0.25%, noting that inflation is holding at a desirable target level ...

The first central bank meetings of 2025 suggest it will be a year in which policymakers go their own way as economic paths ...

Speaking today (February 5) to parliament, Kazuhiro Masaki, director-general of the BoJ’s monetary affairs department, noted ...

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

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.

Deputy Director for the Asia and Pacific Department, Mission Chief for Japan, IMF ...