US President Donald Trump's aggressive tariff policy risks clouding the outlook for the Bank of Japan's monetary policy normalization and could drag on lenders' incomes.

OKAYAMA--The Bank of Japan must raise interest rates to at least 1% as soon as the second half of next fiscal year, hawkish policymaker Naoki Tamura said on Thursday, reinforcing the bank's ...

But he has remained mum on how far the BOJ could eventually raise rates. Hawkish policymaker Naoki Tamura is the only one in the nine-member BOJ board who has specifically mentioned that the bank ...

The yen strengthened as far as 151.81 per dollar - the strongest level since December 12 - in the Tokyo morning, after the BOJ’s Naoki Tamura said the central bank must raise rates to at least 1 ...