BOJ shifts focus away from output gap, towards labour shortage Board debated wage pressure, stagflation risk at January ...

The Bank of Japan is increasingly blaming chronic labor shortages, not stagnant demand, as the main reason for its weak ...

The Bank of Japan will continue to raise interest rates if underlying inflation accelerates toward its 2% target as projected ...

Japan's central bank has increased the cost of borrowing to its highest level in 17 years after consumer price rises ...

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

The Bank of Japan is likely to raise interest rates again this year and see borrowing costs reach levels deemed neutral to ...

As interest rates rise, the value of JGBs could plummet due to heightened inflation and duration risks. Click to read.

Speaking today (February 5) to parliament, Kazuhiro Masaki, director-general of the BoJ’s monetary affairs department, noted ...

The Bank of Japan has raised short-term interest rates by a quarter point, the highest in 17 years, signalling efforts to ...

The first central bank meetings of 2025 suggest it will be a year in which policymakers go their own way as economic paths ...

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Kazuo Ueda appears to have made a new year’s resolution to avoid shocks — and the self-inflicted wounds that come with them. After blindsiding investors in July, the Bank of Japan governor needed ...