TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan must be cautious about raising interest rates given the expected hit from U.S. tariffs on the fragile economy, ruling party heavyweight Ken Saito told Reuters. "The ...

A pledge by Japan’s next likely prime minister to reassert government sway over the central bank has fanned worries about ...

Japan’s largest opposition party wants to use the Bank of Japan’s exchange-traded funds to help cover the cost of making high school education free as part of the normalization of monetary policy, ...

Japan's Sanseito party leader Sohei Kamiya speaks during an interview with Reuters in Tokyo, Japan September 25, 2025. REUTERS/Issei Kato TOKYO, Jan 22 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan may be raising ...

TOKYO, July 16 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan should hold off raising interest rates until the economy achieves a stronger recovery, Sohei Kamiya, head of the small opposition party Sanseito said ahead ...

TOKYO--After an 11-month wait, Japan's central bank is about to get off the sidelines. Since it last tightened in January, the Bank of Japan has kept its policy rate target at 0.5%. The long pause has ...

TOKYO, May 28 (Reuters) - Former Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Masazumi Wakatabe said on Thursday that the timing of a ...

TOKYO--The Bank of Japan is likely to hold policy settings steady this week as it examines the effects of its latest interest-rate hike in December. In the final month of last year, the central bank ...

TOKYO: The Bank of Japan may be raising interest rates too rapidly, which could hurt the economy, the head of a small but rising opposition party said, as the country gears up for a general election ...