The BOJ ended a massive stimulus last year and in January raised short-term interest rates to 0.5% on the view Japan was on the cusp of durably hitting its 2% inflation target. While the central ...

The requests, made at a BOJ meeting with bond market participants on May 20-21, heighten the chance the central bank will proceed slowly in reducing its huge balance sheet. The BOJ will conduct a ...

according to a former BOJ board member. Since last summer, the bank has been reducing its buying of government bonds by ¥400 billion ($2.8 billion) every quarter, but that process will come to a ...

TOKYO—Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda has said he won’t push for higher interest rates unless the economy is strong enough to take it, fueling speculation that the next increase won’t come ...

The BOJ has usually kept a target of provision for losses on bond transactions around 50% of gains or losses from the transactions. The Nikkei first reported BOJ setting aside maximum provision ...

“While underlying consumer inflation will stagnate temporarily, there is no change to the BOJ’s view that it will gradually rise toward its 2% target,” Ueda said. “Although developments in ...

The requests, made at the BOJ's meeting with bond market participants on May 20-21, heighten the chance the BOJ will proceed slowly in reducing its huge balance sheet. "From the viewpoint of ...

The BOJ is set to discuss the planned purchase reduction at its next policy meeting later this month. The measure, decided in July last year, aims to gradually shrink its bloated balance sheet.

While underlying consumer inflation will stagnate temporarily, there is no change to the BOJ's view that it will gradually rise toward its 2% target, Ueda said. "Although developments in trade ...

[TOKYO] The Bank of Japan (BOJ) received a sizeable number of requests to maintain or slightly slow the pace of tapering in its bond purchases from fiscal year 2026 onward, minutes of a meeting ...