Consumer inflation in the Tokyo metropolitan area picked up slightly in January, government data showed Friday, supporting ...

Core consumer prices in Japan's capital rose 2.5% in January from a year earlier, data showed on Friday, keeping alive market ...

"If our economic and price forecasts are achieved, we will raise our policy rate accordingly and adjust the degree of ...

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

The BOJ’s first major quantitative tightening step took place in July 2024 when it decided to slash bond buying by ¥400 ...

All outstanding loans from the central bank's fund-provisioning program to stimulate bank lending are expected to be wiped ...

Japan’s real rates clearly remain in negative territory even with last week’s interest rate hike, and the Bank of Japan will keep raising rates if its economic outlook is realized, according to Deputy ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s goal of getting the annual budget passed – and perhaps the fate of his own political ...

The Japanese government expects its annual debt-servicing costs to rise to almost $230 billion over the next four years as the central bank’s campaign to gradually raise interest rates drives up ...

The Japanese yen strengthened against other G-10 and Asian currencies on the prospects of a hawkish tilt to Bank of Japan’s Deputy Governor Himino’s speech this afternoon.

Asian stocks rose and currencies edged higher as traders digested a rate pause by the Federal Reserve and shifted focus to a pair of central bank speeches taking place in the region.