This photo taken on May 18, 2016, shows the head office of the Bank of Japan in Tokyo.... The Japanese central bank stuck to its program to keep borrowing costs low for companies and households by setting short-term interest rates at minus 0.1 percent while guiding 10-year Japanese government bond yields around zero percent.... Under the new climate-related program, the BOJ will offer one-year, zero-interest funds to financial institutions for their loans and investments in such products as gr

This photo shows the head office of the Bank of Japan in Tokyo.... Kuroda also noted the lingering disruptions in supply chains such as a shortage of parts and labor as well as bottlenecks in logistics as overseas risks, which have already dragged down Japan's production and exports.... " If supply-side constraints are prolonged globally more than expected, this will bring about a deceleration in overseas economies and cost increases and thereby negatively affect Japan's exports and corporate

This file photo shows the Tokyo Stock Exchange.... U.S. currency and bond markets were closed Monday for a national holiday.... " A divergence in monetary policy between U.S. and Japanese central banks is pushing the dollar up against the yen," said Yuji Saito, head of the foreign exchange department at Credit Agricole Corporate Investment Bank in Tokyo....

This photo shows the Bank of Japan headquarters building in Tokyo.... The BOJ's meeting came a week before the ruling Liberal Democratic Party elects its new president who will almost certainly become Japan's next prime minister as incumbent Yoshihide Suga's current term as LDP leader expires at the end of this month.... Four candidates in the LDP race recognize the need to keep crisis-mode support for the pandemic-hit economy with financial markets looking for any hints of change from" Abenom

Pedestrians receive an extra edition of the newspaper reporting on Fumio Kishida, former foreign minister, becoming the winner of the Liberal Democratic Party's presidential election on Sept.... " We are expecting to see an upbeat market under the new administration through the year as a trend for healthy earnings reports from domestic companies will likely continue," said Shingo Ide, chief equity strategist at NLI Research Institute.... 14, less than a month after hitting its lowest level of