Animation. Boj the bilby and his musical parents move from the Australian outback to the cosmopolitan community of Giggly Park. Three chickens have to face unthinkable challenges of technology, school ...

TOKYO, Jan 28 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan will likely raise interest rates again around June or July, and seek to triple its policy rate to at least 1.5% in the next two years, former BOJ board ...

TOKYO, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Bank of Japan board members discussed how to use estimates on the economy's neutral interest rate to determine further hikes in borrowing costs, with one saying the BOJ's ...

BOJ executives probably want to raise short-term rates at least to 1.5% by the end of fiscal 2026, so they have scope to reduce borrowing costs when the economy faces another downturn, Sakurai said.

TOKYO – The Bank of Japan (BOJ) made a significant step towards shrinking its massive balance sheet in the week of Jan 20, while market watchers were fixated on the biggest interest rate ...

The program’s outstanding loans stood at ¥77 trillion ($496 billion) as of Jan. 20, accounting for around 10.4% of the central bank’s overall balance sheet, according to BOJ data.

The Bank of Japan is likely to have two women on its decision-making board for the first time, marking a modest step toward improving gender diversity at the central bank as it struggles to catch ...

If the BOJ continues to raise the rate, it will become close to the so-called neutral rate of interest, which neither stimulates nor cools the economy. The BOJ expects to raise the policy rate to ...

Bank of Japan (BoJ) Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Friday that underlying inflation is still somewhat below 2%. Ueda added that the Japanese central bank would maintain an accommodative policy to ...

BOJ discussed neutral rate estimate at December meeting, minutes show A passerby walks past in front of the Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo, Japan January 23, 2025. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo ...

While consumer inflation has moved above the BOJ's 2 per cent target recently, the increase was driven mostly by cost-push factors such as rising food and fuel prices that will likely dissipate ...

An indicator of investors’ inflationary expectations in Japan has risen to a record high, which could encourage the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to continue raising interest rates, analysts say. The break-even ...