TOKYO, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan is likely to raise interest rates in coming months with January emerging as the most likely timing, when there will be more clarity on political and ...

BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda issued a mild warning on Friday that it could increase bond buying if "abnormal" market moves trigger a sharp rise in yields, but he was reiterating the bank's pledge made ...

Mrs Twitch has left Pops and Mimi in charge of the tear-away Twitchlets at a big sleep-over at Boj's house. After a whirlwind evening of breakages and demands, how will they ever settle the little ...

Another member said the BOJ should factor in firms' and households' inflation expectations, upside risks to prices and progress in wage hikes when making policy decisions at the next meeting. At ...

Consumer inflation has been running above the BOJ’s target of 2% for almost three years. Recent price increases are led partly by higher food prices, including those for rice, a key staple food ...

As part of the decision, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) raised interest rates for the first time in 17 years, lifting its short-term rate to “around zero to 0.1%” from minus 0.1%, according to a ...

BOJ officials view the potential cost of waiting for more information to confirm solid wage growth as not very high, the people said.

TOKYO—The Bank of Japan would consider a policy response if the yen’s weakness causes inflation to rise sharply higher, Gov. Kazuo Ueda said Wednesday. “If there is a risk that a virtuous ...

The BOJ has now held policy steady for the second straight meeting as the board continued to assess the potential impact of US President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Japan’s export-driven economy.

“The BOJ needs to be humble about economic data and the markets,” said Nobuyasu Atago, chief economist at Rakuten Securities Economic Research Institute and a former BOJ official. “The fact ...

Ueda also said the BOJ will take "stronger steps" to whittle down monetary support if inflation overshoots its projections, signalling the chance of hiking rates sooner or more aggressively than ...

At the end of new governor Kazuo Ueda’s first policy-setting meeting Friday, the BOJ decided to maintain its cap on the 10-year Japanese government-bond yield at 0.5% and kept short-term ...