The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is the Japanese central bank, which sets monetary policy in the country. Its mandate is to issue ...

Ueda said there was "still quite some distance" between the BOJ's policy rate and Japan's neutral rate, or the level that neither cools nor overheats the economy, signaling the bank's readiness to ...

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Friday the central bank must maintain loose monetary policy to ensure underlying ...

Almost from the moment he was sworn in as Bank of Japan governor, Kazuo Ueda sounded like a guy who wanted to be done with negativity. It just wasn’t obvious why. As the BOJ this week considers ...

The Bank of Japan is expected to raise its benchmark interest rate this week by 25 basis points. A hike will put the BOJ's key rate at 0.5%, its highest level since 2008. Public comments by Governor ...

The Bank of Japan will debate whether to raise interest rates next week, Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Wednesday, signalling its intention to take borrowing costs higher barring a Trump-driven market ...

(Bloomberg) — 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 ...

History: The Bank of Japan was established under the Bank of ... The revised Act came into effect on April 1, 1998. Kazuo Ueda was born in Makinohara, Japan, on September 20, 1951.

Ueda said that the responses to the rate hike were muted, suggesting the central bank's decision was on target. The Bank of Japan increased the rate for the first time in 17 years in March last ...

Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda said, underlining that it is in no hurry to raise interest rates. “Our goal is to achieve a moderate rise in prices accompanied by solid wage growth,” Ueda told a ...

The Bank of Japan raised interest rates today to their highest since the 2008 global financial crisis and revised up its inflation forecasts, underscoring its confidence that rising wages will keep ...