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

The Bank of Japan raised interest rates on Friday to their highest since the 2008 global financial crisis, underscoring its ...

Japan's annual interest payments on government debt could surge more than 50% over the next few years, government estimates ...

Bank of Japan is now pointing the finger at chronic labor shortages—rather than sluggish demand—as the culprit behind its ...

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 ...

As other major central banks move to cut the high interest rates they had used to curb inflation, Japan is, as usual, bucking the trend. After encouraging a period of rising prices, the Bank of ...

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

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

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

Recent data show Japanese workers are gaining better wages and are generally set to receive solid pay raises in their ...

The widely expected move underscores the central bank’s resolve to steadily push up interest rates to around 1%, a level analysts see as neither cooling nor overheating Japan’s economy.