For the country’s commercial banks, the BOJ’s sub-zero rates strategy aimed at stimulating the economy and prices has eroded their profit margins.

Tokiko Shimizu’s appointment as one of only six BOJ executive directors is another step forward for gender equality at the central bank.

A longtime thorn for businesses and productivity in Japan and South Korea is set to prove a bulwark for those economies as the coronavirus threatens millions of jobs around the world. Mass layoffs are frowned upon and labor laws make it hard for employers to ...

The data show that the economy was already in a highly fragile state when the virus started to slam exports, supply chains, tourists and shoppers.

Economists estimate the economy shrank at an annualized rate of 3.8 percent in the third quarter and that the virus will likely push Japan into recession.

Japan looks set to re-embrace the power of public spending with one of its biggest ever stimulus packages. Slowing global growth, a higher sales tax and a string of natural disasters are giving policymakers in Tokyo plenty of reasons to lead a worldwide shift toward ...

Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda's role as the prime focus for efforts to revive the world's third-largest economy is coming to an end. An unprecedented level of concern about damaging side effects of Japan's multidecade experiment with ultralow interest rates has gripped policymakers, regulators ...

Global financial turmoil is turning up the heat on the Bank of Japan, raising the question of how much pain it can take before it is forced to act. The BOJ faces two market-driven problems as the U.S.-China trade war escalates — a strengthening yen ...

The hottest economic doctrine around says governments should stop worrying and learn to love their public debt. Japan has been more relaxed than most — but a looming tax hike suggests it may be about to blink. Modern Monetary Theory, or MMT, posits that countries ...