The Bank of Japan must be cautious about raising interest rates given the expected hit from U.S. tariffs on the fragile ...

As speculation mounts that the Bank of Japan will raise interest rates later this year, there’s a growing risk that required ...

Japan must balance its budget and push the central bank to raise interest rates to alleviate concern over the country's ...

Some Bank of Japan policymakers saw scope to resume interest rate increases once trade friction caused by U.S. tariffs eased, ...

Masahiko Loo of State Street Investment Management describes the Bank of Japan's cautious approach to its rate hiking cycle.

Taro Kono’s remarks come after several prominent executives made similar pleas, though no economists expect a move when the ...

The S&P Global Japan Services PMI rose to 53.6 in July 2025, slightly above the flash estimate of 53.5 and up from 51.7 in ...

Nominal wages increased 2.5% in June from a year earlier, accelerating from a revised 1.4% gain the previous month and ...

The CEO of Japan's largest bank said the Bank of Japan could raise its policy rate as early as September, given the outlook ...

Bank of Japan watchers brought forward their forecast for when they expect the next interest rate hike, after clarity over ...

The Bank of Japan laid the groundwork this week for resuming interest rate hikes by spelling out explicitly for the first ...

Minutes of the Bank of Japan's June board meeting released on Tuesday show policymakers were increasingly wary of a sharp ...