Toru Fujioka

The bank left its interest rates and asset purchases unchanged, according to a statement Friday, as predicted by all economists in a survey.

Economists are predicting core consumer prices will rise at a pace of 2% or more this year as surging energy prices, a weakening yen and ...

The call for more stimulus by Etsuro Honda comes barely three months after Prime Minister Fumio Kishida unveiled a bigger-than-expected ¥56 trillion package to support ...

The report is likely to fuel speculation over possible BOJ policy normalization even though Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda has repeatedly rejected the idea, given ongoing weakness ...

Growth in consumer prices excluding fresh food slowed to 0.2% in January from a year earlier, compared with 0.5% the previous month, the internal affairs ...

Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda remains the last staunch dove at the world’s biggest central banks outside of China as inflation gathers pace.

Many Tokyo-based economists are among those warning that the omicron wave could trigger yet another quarter of negative growth for the world’s third-largest economy.

Hiromi Yamaoka said that while it’s clear Japan’s payment systems need to change, he is totally against the idea of the central bank using a ...

The slowdown in Tokyo inflation signals just how different Japan is from other major economies where surging consumer prices are pushing central banks to rein ...