Toyoaki Nakamura’s speech comes shortly after government data showed that Japan’s economy shrank more than expected in the ...

Nakamura is considered among the most dovish members of the BOJ policy board. He has voted against the bank's decisions to raise rates. His five-year term as a BOJ board member is set to end in June.

Using a two-country monetary union framework with financial frictions, we quantify the efficacy of targeted asset purchases, ...

We find that an unanticipated tightening of US monetary policy tends to raise US import prices. This empirical “spill-back” pattern differs from the predictions of typical open-economy macro models.

"The bank needs to wait and see until developments in U.S. tariff policy have become somewhat settled," one of the BOJ's nine policy board members said at the April 30-May 1 meeting where the central ...

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The Bank of Japan will likely hold fire for the next few months due to growing concerns about the impact of U.S. tariffs, a ...

Bank of Japan policymakers showed mixed views in March over the timing of a potential interest rate hike, as concerns over ...

The Bank of Japan faced internal disagreement in March regarding the timing of future interest rate hikes. Concerns arose ...

The careful rhetorical calibrations that Japan’s Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato is having to do over whether Japan’s ...