The remarks suggest the BOJ is maintaining its resolve to steadily push up borrowing costs despite rising uncertainty from U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff policies, which is heightening ...

TOKYO, Feb 21 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan may raise interest rates in March if U.S. President Donald Trump pushes through on his tariff threats and adds to already mounting domestic inflationary ...

TOKYO, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Investors in Japan's government bond market are getting a glimpse of life without heavy intervention by the Bank of Japan, which is showing little sign of reverting to a ...

The government and the Bank of Japan may have intervened in the foreign exchange market twice last week to support the yen against the U.S. dollar, according to market estimates based on BOJ data.

But Governor Kazuo Ueda also said rising food costs and stronger-than-expected wage growth could push up underlying inflation ... but said the BOJ did not necessarily need to wait until everything ...

Together with improvements in the economy, though, this may prompt the BOJ to revise up its consumer price forecast for the year to March 2012 in its twice-yearly outlook report due on April 30, ...

"It's natural for bond yields to creep up if market bets on the (BOJ's) terminal rate is rising," one of the sources said, a view echoed by another source. "I don't think the BOJ is too worried ...