Some Bank of Japan policymakers began to lose faith in the power of former Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's "bazooka" stimulus less ...

"There seems to be no change to (the BOJ's) basic stance of gradually raising interest rates with an eye on economic and price developments," Kuroda said. "That's because a positive wage-inflation ...

The coronavirus outbreak could inflict serious damage on the Japanese economy, Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Wednesday, stressing the central bank was ready to take “appropriate ...

The BOJ’s first major quantitative tightening step took place in July 2024 when it decided to slash bond buying by ¥400 ...

A long-awaited autopsy of the lost decades reveals that the governor is eager to move on. But the potential for missteps is ...

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda raised interest rates to the highest level since 2008, avoiding market turmoil by carefully ...

Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda has been criticized as out of touch with the realities of inflation facing ordinary citizens since he made the comment on June 6. Questioned again by ...

Japan’s biggest banks are nearing a key valuation level for the first time in almost a decade as investors bet that the Bank ...

Under Kuroda, the BOJ launched a huge asset-buying scheme in 2013 that later combined negative interest rates and bond yield control, in a bid to fire up inflation to its 2 per cent target.