Japan's economy contracted an annualised 1.8% in the July-September quarter, the first fall in six quarters, due to a hit to ...

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said the central bank is aiming for moderate inflation accompanied by wage rises and ...

The first face-to-face meeting between Japan’s prime minister and the head of its central bank has cooled expectations that ...

To say Ueda’s 2025 is getting “trumped” would be quite the understatement. He began the year riding high as his policy board hiked rates to the highest in 17 years — 0.5%. By now, the Ueda BOJ was ...

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The Japanese economy shrank by 1.8 percent compared to the same quarter last year, as U.S. tariffs dampened automobile ...

Former Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Masazumi Wakatabe and Toshihiro Nagahama, chief economist at Dai-ichi Life Research ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Wednesday she "strongly hopes" the central bank conducts ...

Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Shinichi Uchida has been hospitalized for leukemia treatment but will carry out necessary ...

JPYC projects yen stablecoin issuers will invest heavily in JGBs, potentially shaping liquidity and Japan’s bond-buying ...

Japan's three largest banking groups are expected to post healthy second-quarter earnings on Friday, staying on track for ...

Stablecoin issuers could become major buyers of Japanese government bonds in several years and influence the central bank's ...