The Bank of Japan should take a cautious approach to raising interest rates while the government pulls out all the stops to ...

TOKYO, March 26 (Reuters) - Central bank digital currencies (CBDC) could play a key role in global payments and settlements in the future, requiring the Bank of Japan to prepare for the possibility of ...

Atsushi Mimura, Japan’s vice-finance minister for international affairs, called the yen’s moves “one-sided” and “sudden” after it weakened more than 1 per cent against the dollar since Friday, shortly ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan could raise interest rates in October even if Sanae Takaichi, a proponent of aggressive monetary easing, wins the ruling party's leadership race and becomes the next ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan currently has no plan to issue a central bank digital currency (CBDC) but must continue innovating its payment and settlement system in an increasingly cash-less society, a ...

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Big Japanese manufacturers' business sentiment hit a four-year high in the three months to December, a closely watched survey ...

Japan’s inflation rate held steady in November, official data showed today, ahead of the Bank of Japan’s (BoJ) monetary ...

TOKYO--The Bank of Japan is likely to stand pat again next week, given continued uncertainty about trade negotiations and the impact of tariffs on the global economy. The BOJ's policy board is also ...

The one-sided and sudden movement of the yen, particularly after last week’s monetary policy meeting, is deeply concerning.

The Bank of Japan has completed the offloading of bank shares it began acquiring in October 2007 from beleaguered banks during the early 2000s banking crisis. The BoJ is now considering shifting its ...