The Bank of Japan is expected to cut interest rates as soon as today or tomorrow, as pressure builds from inside the country and chaos mounts globally.

Raising rates will act to strengthen yen and thus help on the "imported" inflation front, but Japan's accumulated debt becoming harder to service, as 40year JGB's passed 3% for FIRST time in history = ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's core inflation hit 3.0% in February and an index stripping away the effect of fuel rose at the fastest pace in nearly a year, a sign of broadening price pressure that ...

Japanese households' inflation expectations heightened in the three months to March, a Bank of Japan survey showed on Friday, ...

OKAYAMA--The Bank of Japan must raise interest rates to at least 1% as soon as the second half of next fiscal year, hawkish policymaker Naoki Tamura said on Thursday, reinforcing the bank's ...

The data came in the wake of Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Kazuo Ueda's warning, made after its decision to keep interest rates steady on Wednesday, that rising food costs and stronger-than ...