The Bank of Japan will release next month its findings on the pros and cons of the various unconventional monetary easing tools used in its 25-year battle with deflation, in another symbolic step ...

January seems to be more likely as the BOJ would have more data including on whether consumption and wage growth will hold up," said Sakurai, who retains close contact with incumbent policymakers.

“The step-up to faster easing” outside of Japan means “the BOJ has to be careful,” Krishna Guha and Marco Casiraghi, central ...

A third member, however, said the BOJ "could find it appropriate to raise rates even when markets are unstable," adding that the central bank ought to push up its policy target to 1% as soon as ...

With the make-up of Japan's future government in flux, the political uncertainty may force the BOJ to put off raising interest rates at least for the rest of 2024, some analysts say. Yuichiro ...

Estimates showed that a 1% rise in the minimum wage would push up services prices, as measured by the consumer price index, by 0.07 percentage point, the BOJ said in the report. An analysis of ...

Estimates showed that a 1 per cent rise in the minimum wage would push up services prices, as measured by the consumer price index, by 0.07 percentage point, the BOJ said in the report. An analysis of ...