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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

"Given high uncertainties, the BOJ would likely pause rate hikes for the time being. But it also must respond flexibly and ...