The Bank of Japan is likely to raise interest rates in coming months with January emerging as the most likely timing, when ...

Bank of Japan policymakers shared the view that the central bank will keep raising interest rates if its economic and price ...

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With the make-up of Japan's future government in flux, the political uncertainty may force the BOJ to put off raising interest rates at least for the rest of 2024, some analysts say. Yuichiro ...

BOJ Gov. Kazuo Ueda said at a news conference after the meeting that uncertainties surrounding overseas economies are starting to clear. "It is important for the bank to communicate effectively its ...

The BOJ also released its quarterly consumer inflation report. It maintains its forecast of 2.5 percent for fiscal 2024, which started in April. But it downgraded its outlook for the next fiscal ...

Estimates showed that a 1% rise in the minimum wage would push up services prices, as measured by the consumer price index, by 0.07 percentage point, the BOJ said in the report. An analysis of ...

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda, right, and the other members of the central bank's Policy Board attend the second day of its two-day meeting at the BOJ's headquarters in Tokyo on Oct. 31 ...

"The BOJ needs to pay due attention to the future course of overseas economies, particularly the US economy, and developments in financial markets," the BOJ said in a quarterly outlook report.

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A third member, however, said the BOJ "could find it appropriate to raise rates even when markets are unstable," adding that the central bank ought to push up its policy target to 1 per cent as ...