The Bank of Japan must raise interest rates if persistent increases in food costs lead to broad-based inflation, Governor ...

“Our projection is that the underlying price trend will broadly reach 2% in the second half of our outlook period,” Ueda said. “Of course monetary policy can be adjusted in line with that ...

The Bank of Japan’s governor said that the central bank may have to consider responding by raising interest rates if the rise ...

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Wednesday the central bank will continue to raise interest rates if economic and price developments move in line with its projections. "Japan's economy is ...

Bank of Japan (BoJ) Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Monday that the central bank “will not rule out the possibility of selling ...

BOJ Governor Ueda Kazuo said at a news conference on the bank's monetary policy meeting that policymakers were forced to ...

Earlier in the day, the BOJ gave a dovish impression when it dropped a reference to continued interest rate hikes in the ...

The Bank of Japan is set to hold the benchmark rate at the current level of 0.5 per cent on Wednesday.

Ueda said Japan's recent "very high" inflation ... which are likely to dissipate and thus not a reason to tighten monetary policy. Sign up here. But there is a chance that sustained rises in ...

"Japan's economy is recovering moderately, albeit with some weaknesses," Ueda told parliament in a semi-annual testimony on its monetary policy.