Year of the Horse in Japan. It’s one demographers have been awaiting for decades — the return of the Fire Horse.

Bitcoin (BTC) risks a second weekly loss as BoJ rate hike fears and rising JGB yields pressure risk assets. Rising Japanese bond yields revive yen carry trade unwind risks, exposing BTC to downside ...

TOKYO—The timing of Japan’s next shift in monetary policy appears to hinge on a hard-to-pin-down detail that fascinates economists: the so-called neutral level of interest rates. Bank of Japan Gov.

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda has given the strongest signal yet that the central bank may resume interest rate hikes later this month, pushing the yen and bond yields higher on Monday. Ueda said ...

The Japanese yen crashed to a record low this week. Japan’s Sanae Takaichi is seeking a $112 billion stimulus. Technical analysis suggests that a USD/JPY jump to 160 is possible. The Japanese yen ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan kept interest rates steady on Thursday, with its governor sending the strongest signal yet that a rate hike was possible as soon as December depending on the outlook ...

The Bank of Japan is widely expected to hold interest rates on Thursday at its first meeting since Sanae Takaichi, an advocate of easy monetary policy, became prime minister. With Takaichi at the ...

TOKYO—Japan’s new finance minister doesn’t see the need to comment on the direction of central bank policy, she said Friday, noting Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda’s commitment to supporting the economy ...

Most Bank of Japan watchers expect authorities to lift the benchmark interest rate by January, with the proportion picking next month as the likely timing edging down after Prime Minister Shigeru ...

One of the biggest stories emerging from the Far East this month is the imminent launch of a blockchain-based version of the Japanese yen, one of the world’s major fiat currencies. The timing for this ...

TOKYO, Aug 1 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan laid the groundwork this week for resuming interest rate hikes by spelling out explicitly for the first time the risks that persistent food price rises fan ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan may take a long pause before raising interest rates again, but it has still left scope for action this year by signaling caution over broadening price pressures that ...