Bank of Japan

New BOJ governor set to start stimulus soon

2 Mar 2013

The Bank of Japan may add monetary stimulus as early as April as prospective governor Haruhiko Kuroda looks to demonstrate a more aggressive approach to tackling 15 years of falling prices.

Nomination of Kuroda as next BOJ governor raises hope of stimulus

28 Feb 2013

The regime change may tilt the Bank of Japan toward a more expansionary monetary policy, as Abe calls for a per cent inflation target to be reached as soon as possible. The yen has fallen about 11...

Tokyo delays key BoJ appointment; talk of friction

19 Feb 2013

Japan’s government has delayed nominating a Bank of Japan governor by a week, fanning talk of friction between the prime minister and the finance minister over who should run a central bank...

Muto leads as Japan PM close to choosing nominee for BOJ chief

18 Feb 2013

Former top financial bureaucrat Toshiro Muto is the leading candidate to become Japan’s next central bank governor with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to pick a nominee as early as this week, sources...

Muto leads as Japan PM close to choosing nominee for BOJ chief

15 Feb 2013

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is close to selecting his nominee for central bank governor and Toshiro Muto is the leading candidate in a honed down list of names, sources close to the process...

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Asia Development bank boss supports further BOJ easing measures

"Some additional" measures could be justified for 2013, ADB president Haruhiko Kuroda said, stressing that he was speaking in his capacity as an economist and chief of the ADB, not as a BOJ...

Japan PM’s push for radical BOJ head meets resistance

The Japanese prime minister’s push for a governor who will lead a radical policy shake up at the Bank of Japan is meeting resistance from his own cabinet and financial bureaucrats, who fear...

Bold easing action closer with exit of BOJ governor

Bank of Japan governor Masaaki Shirakawa will step down on March 19, almost three weeks before his term is due, accelerating a leadership transition that may aid Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's...

MONITOR

Davos talk of new currency war is wildly exaggerated

Just as sentiment towards the world's economy and financial markets was perking up, the legion of praters assembled in Davos over the weekend found something else to worry about: the threat of a...

JAPAN

Japan policy sparks Davos fears of ‘currency war’

Japan’s controversial new economic policy emerged as one of the hot topics at this year’s Davos forum, with talk of currency wars and strong rebuttals from Japanese officials.

JAPAN

Japan faces wage hurdle in bid to end deflation

A decade and a half after Japan slumped into deflation, the central bank is set to signal its strongest effort yet to reverse the trend. The biggest challenge may be that the nation has come to...