TOKYO -- The government-backed Development Bank of Japan will as early as Friday launch a $60 million fund with Indonesia's sovereign wealth fund to provide financing to midsize companies in a ...

BANK of Japan board member Hajime Takata said on Wednesday the central bank must continue to raise interest rates gradually to avoid upside price risks from materialising. “Inflation is approaching ...

Joyo Bank, one of Japan’s largest regional lenders, is holding off from investing in domestic bonds for now though, according to Yoshitsugu Toba, a managing executive officer at the bank.

FOOD inflation in Japan is a hot topic for households managing monthly budgets – and increasingly for the central bank as well, as prices for staples including rice and cabbage soar. The issue will ...

On Wednesday, the Bank of Japan's governor, Kazuo Ueda, warned that food prices in the country could remain high. He also said that the bank was "deeply aware" that this was negatively impacting ...

The yen’s slide over the past three years was spurred in large part by the Bank of Japan’s longtime policy of keeping interest rates at or below zero. Its goal was to encourage inflation after ...

The Bank of Japan will continue to raise interest rates if underlying inflation accelerates toward its 2% target as projected, a senior central bank official said on Wednesday. January 29 ...

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 ...

Japan is turning to nuclear power more than a decade after the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Japan is ditching plans to lessen its reliance on nuclear power amid struggles ...

TOKYO -- Japanese agricultural lender Norinchukin Bank's President and CEO Kazuto Oku will step down to take responsibility for the bank's huge loss in the fiscal year ending March. Oku ...

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The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is the central bank of Japan. Established under the Bank of Japan Act in 1882, it is a juridical entity and neither a government agency nor a private corporation.