Japan has long been regarded as largely immune from the problems of debt-driven fiscal policy and monetary inflation. After ...

Persistent price rises further complicate the Bank of Japan’s policy steering amid tariff-related uncertainty.

Japan’s headline inflation moderated a bit to 3.5% YoY in May (vs 3.6% in April, 3.5% market consensus), in line with market ...

Japan's core inflation hit a more than two-year high in May and exceeded the central bank's 2% target for well over three ...

Bank of Japan policymakers agreed on the need to keep raising still-low interest rates, but some saw the need to pause for ...

Japan’s fiscal position also appears healthier following a rare burst of inflation, which has boosted tax receipts. Preliminary data suggest the country recorded a surplus for the first time in 17 ...

The Bank of Japan is taking a more cautious approach to reducing its balance sheet, meaning Japanese capital invested ...

Analysts at ING expect the BOJ to hold off raising rates until early 2026 if Japan's tariff negotiations with the U.S. drag ...

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) is pressing pause on the pace of its balance sheet drawdown, signalling a cautious turn in its policy normalisation journey amid rising global uncertainty. On Tuesday, the ...

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said the central bank is still some distance from its inflation goal in comments that helped accelerate a weakening of the yen.. While Ueda also talked down the ...

The US Treasury Department has told the Bank of Japan to keep hiking interest rates, saying it’s the only way to stop the yen from staying weak and to fix the trade imbalance between both countries.

The US Treasury called on the Bank of Japan to raise interest rates to strengthen the yen, stepping much deeper into policy recommendations for Tokyo than before in its semiannual currency report.