"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 central bank stood pat earlier this month after a cycle of rate hikes since March 2024 and halving its economic growth ...

Japan’s economy likely suffered a contraction in the first three months of this year, signaling underlying fragility even before US tariff measures started hitting the country in earnest, according to ...

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Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday criticized calls to issue deficit-covering government bonds to fund economic measures aimed at cushioning the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump's ...