In its fifth hike under Governor Kazuo Ueda, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) raised its benchmark rate 25 basis points to its highest level since 1995, paving a path to 1.25% that

Some of the Bank of Japan’s (BOJ) senior leadership may be in ill health but the institution remains healthy enough to deliver a 25 basis point hike to 1% on

Thirteen days before a crucial Bank of Japan (BOJ) meeting its own Board majority has publicly flagged as live, Governor Kazuo Ueda used a key speech to confirm the June

Set aside commentary from the most senior Bank of Japan (BOJ) officials participating in this week’s BOJ-hosted international banking conference in Tokyo — the most significant marker for a rate

In an extraordinary rebuke of Sanae Takaichi’s restraint on Japan’s central bank from hiking rates, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on the sidelines of the Paris G7 meeting, publicly called out

Scott Bessent has arrived in Tokyo with a message Japanese officials have been anticipating and dreading in equal measure: American patience with a weakening yen is running out, and the

Citing the war on Iran, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) punted a rate hike to June in a 6-3 board vote to keep interest rates unchanged at 0.75%, even as

The US-Israeli war with Iran is unlikely to deter the Bank of Japan (BOJ) from nudging its policy rate to 1% at its April 27-28 meeting, despite topline slower inflation

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s nominations to fill two Bank of Japan (BOJ) seats are unlikely to deter an April rate increase or materially tilt the Board’s center of gravity

A Japanese news report that Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi expressed reluctance to raise rates in a meeting with Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Kazuo Ueda will not likely derail the

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) remains firmly on track to continue its normalization path, with a move to 1% on April 27-28, a further 25 basis points on July 30–31, and

Despite speculation to the contrary in markets, even a decisive election victory for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on February 8 is unlikely to alter the Bank of Japan’s (BOJ) rate‑hike trajectory,

This week’s Bank of Japan (BOJ) meeting, initially intended as a quiet step toward preparing markets for a possible April rate increase, has been reshaped by market turbulence and is

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is eying April for its next rate hike, as yen weakness persists and the Bank worries the sustained inflation overshoot will embed higher than wanted

The latest Japanese data has firmed up prospects for the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to hike rates to 0.75% at the December 18-19 meeting, the highest level in three decades.

In the wee hours of New York’s Tuesday morning, Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Kazuo Ueda will take part in a digital conference, doing his utmost not to precommit his

Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Kazuo Ueda lit up the December policy meeting with his speech in Nagoya Monday, making clear that the Bank will actively consider a rate hike

A December rate hike by the Bank of Japan (BOJ) is slipping off the table after Governor Kazuo Ueda’s first one-on-one meeting with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi Tuesday followed by

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) held rates steady at 50 basis points for a sixth consecutive meeting on Thursday, but Governor Kazuo Ueda edged closer to signaling that a rate

As Sanae Takaichi assumes Japan’s leadership and assembles her Cabinet, she is already thinking about revising the government’s monetary accord with the Bank of Japan (BOJ). Her rewrite of the