Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda will size up the need to raise interest rates on Friday amid heightened expectations of a hike — and barring a market shock triggered by Donald Trump’s first few days in the White House.

The Bank of Japan is expected to hike interest rates twice in 2025 and twice more in 2026, International Monetary Fund chief economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas said on Friday. In its latest World Economic Outlook,

The Bank of Japan holds its first policy meeting of the year next week and the outcome will be announced days after the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.

In its economic forecast released Thursday, the World Bank predicted Japan's gross domestic product will grow a real 1.2% in 2025 and 0.9% in 2026.

TOKYO -- The Bank of Japan's long-term quantitative and qualitative easing measures since 2013 had the side effect of loosening fiscal discipline, 64% of respondents said in a new Nikkei poll of economists.

Japan's headline inflation is at 2.9% year-over-year, at a 3-month high. A hot inflation print could set bitcoin back.

More than 95% of people in Japan feel prices have increased over the past year, a survey by the Bank of Japan has shown. The share of respondents who felt higher prices compared with a year before rose to 95.1% in the latest December survey released Friday, from 94.7% in September.

Japan's 10-year bond yields rose to their highest in nearly 14 years as investors eye more interest rate rises by the Bank of Japan. Continued evidence that Japan's years-long period of deflationary p

Hiroyuki Suzuki is deputy director general of the corporate planning department of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation.

THE Bank of Japan (BOJ) will debate whether to raise interest rates next week as prospects of sustained wage gains heighten and the US policy outlook becomes clearer in president-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural address, deputy governor Ryozo Himino said.

Japan's annual wholesale inflation held steady at 3.8 per cent in December on stubbornly high food costs, data showed on Thursday, highlighting persistent price pressures that may prod the central bank to raise interest rates next week.

Executives at a leading Japanese bank have apologized and taken pay cuts after police arrested an employee who allegedly stole about $9 million worth of valuables from customers’ safe deposit boxes.