The Bank of Japan (BoJ) is the central bank of Japan. It is a juridical person established based on the Bank of Japan Act (hereafter the Act), and is not a government agency or a private corporation.

Japan’s potential kingmaker Yuichiro Tamaki faces a hazardous path as he looks to remain a power broker well beyond Monday’s ...

The bank is backed by KDDI, Japan's second-largest telco and MUFG Bank, Japan's largest financial group. Jibun Bank is known for its focus on integrating mobile and financial solutions ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The growing presence of non-bank financial institutions (NBFI) warrants attention, as some reports show ...

(Bloomberg) -- Two of Japan’s biggest banks raised their annual profit forecasts to fresh records and unveiled plans to buy back shares after first-half results were boosted by lending income and ...

BANK of Japan (BOJ) board members discussed the need for caution on raising its benchmark rate and offered no clear hint of a move next month, a summary of opinions from its October policy meeting ...

Ten-year yields are now about 1%, after the Bank of Japan abandoned a policy of keeping borrowing costs near zero earlier this year as inflation takes hold in the world’s fourth-largest economy.

Stefan Angrick, associate director and senior economist at Moody’s Analytics, described the tone of the BOJ’s Outlook Report ...

Yuichiro Tamaki, the leader of a small opposition party now able to wield outsized political influence, had long puzzled over how best to revive a moribund deflation-entrapped Japanese economy. A ...

This is the game those “Dragon Quest Day” urban legends started for, the game that is still treated in Japan like the ...

OME, Japan (AP) — Deep in a dark warehouse the sake sleeps, stored in rows of giant tanks, each holding more than 10,000 ...

“The people in this region are known for having a serious, diligent and persevering character,” one resident said. “That is ...