Governor Kazuo Ueda has signalled the bank's readiness to keep raising rates as inflation-adjusted real borrowing costs ...

Japan must balance its budget and push the central bank to raise interest rates to alleviate concern over the country's ...

As speculation mounts that the Bank of Japan will raise interest rates later this year, there’s a growing risk that required ...

The Bank of Japan laid the groundwork this week for resuming interest rate hikes by spelling out explicitly for the first ...

Some Bank of Japan policymakers saw scope to resume interest rate increases once trade friction caused by U.S. tariffs eased, ...

The CEO of Japan's largest bank said the Bank of Japan could raise its policy rate as early as September, given the outlook ...

The S&P Global Japan Services PMI rose to 53.6 in July 2025, slightly above the flash estimate of 53.5 and up from 51.7 in ...

While Governor Ueda has signaled a pause in rate hikes after Trump's April 2 announcement of "reciprocal" tariffs, Japan's ...

Bank of Japan watchers brought forward their forecast for when they expect the next interest rate hike, after clarity over ...

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) board members shared their views on the monetary policy outlook on Tuesday, per the BoJ Minutes of ...

A few Bank of Japan board members said in June that the central bank would likely consider resuming interest rate hikes if ...