TOKYO, March 31 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan said on Monday it will reduce purchases of super-long bonds for the first time since embarking on a quantitative tightening (QT) plan last year ...

Mrs Woof is making her big soup but is missing Mr Cloppity's carrots, as his crop has failed. Boj and his buddies discover a giant carrot growing amongst the tiddlers but it is too big to deliver to ...

Keen to continue normalising ultra-loose monetary policy, the BOJ will seek to raise short-term rates to 0.75% from 0.5% either at the next meeting on April 30-May 1 or June, said Sakurai ...

He offered few hints on the next rate-hike timing, but said the BOJ did not necessarily need to wait until everything is clear on the impact of U.S. tariffs, in pulling the trigger. "While there ...

In delivering the bank’s semi-annual report to lawmakers Wednesday, Ueda reiterated the BOJ’s stance that it will continue to raise interest rates if its economic outlook is realized ...

That’s the sixth straight year of losses for Japan’s sovereign debt, and the biggest since 1990, as the BOJ hikes rate when other central banks are cutting them. “Japan’s yields used to ...

Under a quantitative tightening (QT) programme laid out in July, the BOJ has been slowing bond purchases by around 400 billion yen ($2.65 billion) per quarter to halve monthly purchases to 3 ...

“Uncertainties over the global economy are rapidly increasing,” BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda told a news conference on March 19. “We will determine policies after assessing how U.S. trade ...

“The BOJ must carefully examine the impacts of the tariffs on the economy. There is no way they can finish that by the May meeting.” ...

Ueda also said the BOJ will take "stronger steps" to whittle down monetary support if inflation overshoots its projections, signalling the chance of hiking rates sooner or more aggressively than ...

which would make it easier to raise prices for other goods and services and lead to the possibility for more widespread inflation,” BOJ Gov. Kazuo Ueda told a parliamentary committee.