Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, known as MUFG, is Japan’s largest banking group, with 8.0% share of domestic loans and 11.6% of deposits as of March 2024. It was also the most global among Japanese ...

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group shares rose to their highest intraday level since listing in April 2001, buoyed by growing confidence that modest inflation is taking hold in Japan and that the central ...

Giving explicit advance signals, in addition to making the Bank of Japan feel boxed in, could breach Japanese law stipulating ...

Japan’s central bank looks poised to lift its key interest rate to 0.5%, from 0.25%, at its meeting Thursday and Friday, according to around 80% of economists polled by Reuters.

TOKYO, Jan 20 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan is expected to raise interest rates on Friday barring any market shocks when U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes office, a move that would lift ...

Tokyo (Jiji Press) — Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Tuesday that he aims to build a relationship of trust with Donald ... deliberations in the Diet, Japan’s parliament.

The Bank of Japan is likely to raise rates at its January 24 meeting following recent supportive comments from BoJ governor Kazuo Ueda and deputy Ryozo Himino. Good wage and inflation data ...

TOKYO: Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba (pic) on Tuesday (Jan 21) congratulated Donald Trump on his return to the White House and said he wanted to build a "relationship of trust".

Established under the Bank of Japan Act in 1882, it is a juridical entity and neither a government agency nor a private corporation. The BoJ sets monetary policy in the country. Its mandate is to ...

The Bank of Japan will raise rates on Friday, according to a report by Jiji Press that didn’t cite sources. If the central bank does, in fact, raise its short-term policy rate at its two-day ...

The Bank of Japan is expected to raise interest rates on Friday barring any market shocks when U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes office, a move that would lift short-term borrowing costs to ...

Don’t worry: It’s general enough to apply to the rest of Japan. But for busy people, here’s a summary of things you should know about what to do before, during and after an earthquake in Japan.