In a quarterly outlook report, the board revised up its core consumer inflation forecast for the current fiscal year to 2.7% ...

The yen weakened to 150 per dollar for the first time since April as investors took comments from Bank of Japan Governor ...

The Bank of Japan kept its policy rate unchanged at 0.5% but delivered a hawkish surprise by sharply upgrading its FY2025 ...

The Bank of Japan kept its main interest rate unchanged today, hiking its inflation and growth forecasts while also flagging ...

On any list of central bankers dying to get off this crazy thing called 2025, Japan’s Kazuo Ueda deserves a spot at the very ...

Carlos Casanova says inflation and the domestic political uncertainty in Japan may affect the timing of Bank of Japan's ...

Stefan Angrick of Moody's Analytics says the Bank of Japan is in a difficult position as the economy looks to be in ...

It has stayed put despite headline and core inflation running above its target of 2% since April 2022, and despite headline inflation's two-year high of 4% in January. So-called "core-core ...

Major central banks have hiked their policy rates in the face of surging inflation since the Covid-19 pandemic — but the Bank of Japan has been an outlier. Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7 ...

Japan's inflation has been above target for over 3 years, but where is the BOJ? By Lim Hui Jie, CNBC • Published June 25, 2025 • Updated on June 25, 2025 at 12:42 am ...

Japan has come to rely on big spending to stimulate its economy, Mr. Park said, and raising rates could both make that approach more difficult to continue and make Japan’s national debt, which ...

Japan’s inability to lift inflation is “one of the biggest unsolved challenges in the profession,” said Mark Gertler, a professor of economics at New York University who has studied the issue.