Leading Japanese banks will raise their fixed housing loan rates in January following a Dec. 20 policy tweak by the Bank of Japan that pushed up long-term interest rates, sources said.

The yield on Japan's benchmark government bond briefly rose to 1.58 percent on Tuesday. That's the highest level since ...

Bond yields have risen in recent years as the Bank of Japan raised rates gradually on the back of an economic recovery and a return of modest inflation. In March, the BOJ kept its policy rate ...