Blackstone Inc. has hired former Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. executive Muneya Taniguchi as vice chairman of Japan to ...

The central bank’s key interest rate is below the level at which it neither stimulates nor restricts growth, while underlying ...

The year was 1925. The new “skyscraper” getting all the buzz was the planned Bank of Italy tower, which became an enduring ...

Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The Japanese national flag waves at the Bank of Japan building in Tokyo, Japan March 18, 2024. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo ...

The Bank of Japan raised rates by 0.25%, a sharp departure from its historically easy money policies, knocking investors back on their heels.

For years, mortgages in Japan have been nearly cost free. Homeowners are now bracing for that to change. Japan’s central bank had maintained benchmark interest rates near zero since the mid-1990s.

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda speaks at a group interview with media in Tokyo, Japan, May 25, 2023. ... Pressure is building on the BOJ to act against creeping inflation.

The pundits were certain quantitative easing was done when Kazuo Ueda took the helm at the Bank of Japan. ... Kuroda, after all, spent 10 years building up a titanically large BOJ balance sheet.

FILE PHOTO: A man walks past the Bank of Japan building in Tokyo, Japan March 18, 2024. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon/File Photo.

Hiroshima resident Yasuhiro Nanba, 86, can explain all the traces left behind by the 1945 atomic explosion on the building in the city that used to be a Bank of Japan branch.

The Bank of Japan is expected to raise interest rates on Friday barring any market shocks when U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes office, a move that would lift short-term borrowing costs to ...

The Japanese national flag waves at the Bank of Japan building in Tokyo, Japan, on March 18. The Bank of Japan is expected to raise interest rates on Friday barring any market shocks when U.S ...