Under Kuroda, the BOJ deployed a massive asset-buying programme dubbed "quantitative and qualitative easing" (QQE) in April ...

A leading indicator of Japan's service-sector inflation hit 2.9 per cent in December as prices rose for a broad range of ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s government nominated a female academic and supporter of policy normalization to join the Bank ...

The Bank of Japan is likely to wait until the summer before it next raises interest rates, according to economists surveyed ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's retailers, typically among the most tight-fisted of employers, are offering big pay increases for a ...

Almost three quarters of Bank of Japan watchers predict an interest rate hike next week according to the latest Bloomberg ...

Asian shares tracked Wall Street higher on Thursday and the dollar was soft as easing core U.S. inflation kept potential rate cuts by the Federal Reserve on the table, while the yen rose to a ...

Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda joined his deputy in strengthening market expectations for a potential interest rate hike next ...

Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Ryozo Himino signaled an interest rate hike may happen next week by saying that the board will ...

Himino also said there are various risks both for the upside and downside, and echoed Gov. Kazuo Ueda by saying momentum for this year’s wage hikes and U.S. economic policy under a new ...

Bank of Japan (BoJ) Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Monday that the “timing of adjusting monetary support depends on economic, price and financial developments.” ...

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda sent a fresh reminder to bankers that he’s going to raise the benchmark rate if the economy continues to improve this year. “Our stance is that we will raise ...