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    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      FT Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign
      Personal inflation calculator: what is your inflation rate?

      As the cost of living continues to rise, find out how much inflation could affect your personal finances

    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      Japan’s economy contracts as weak consumption undercuts recovery

      Third quarter decline will complicate Bank of Japan’s efforts to unwind ultra-loose monetary policy

      People walk across a pedestrian crossing in Ginza shopping district in Tokyo
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      Chris Giles on Central Banks
      Japan’s elusive wage-price spiral Premium content

      The central bank rightly still worries inflation will be too low

      Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda speaks to the media
    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Japan’s fiscal and monetary policies are moving in opposite directions

      Tokyo must consider whether a stimulus next year will help or hinder its central bank

      Kazuo Ueda, the Bank of Japan’s governor
    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      InterviewBank of Japan
      BoJ governor warns unwinding ultra-loose policy is ‘serious challenge’

      Kazuo Ueda tells FT conference that central bank will move carefully on raising interest rates

      Kazuo Ueda in front of a red carpet in India in July
    • Monday, 6 November, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
      Private equity wrestles with higher interest rates

      Japan’s prime minister bets on stimulus to tackle the pain of inflation

    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      Corporate bonds
      What does the end of YCC mean for US credit?

      Well, there’s a lot of Japanese money in US corporate debt . . . 

    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      ExplainerJapanese government bonds
      What the end of Japan’s yield curve control experiment means for markets

      Investor reaction to the BoJ removing the hard ceiling on 10-year yields has so far been muted

      Montage showing the Bank of Japan, 100 Japenese Yen coin, and a bar chart
    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      News in-depth
      Japan’s PM Kishida bets on $113bn stimulus to tackle inflation pain

      Tax cuts and cash handouts fail to convince public and could complicate central bank’s policy unwinding

      Fumio Kishida speaking during a news conference on Thursday
    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      Leo Lewis
      Should investors be spooked by Tokyo’s Halloween?

      Muted celebrations in Shibuya have resurrected past economic demons

      Maria Hergueta illustration of orange-coloured piggy bank decorated for Halloween with spider webs and purple shades.
    • Wednesday, 1 November, 2023
      Central bank intervention
      The BoJ is, or isn’t, playing a blinder

      Deutsche Bank sees danger for the yen

    • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
      Bank of Japan
      BoJ sets stage for end of bond yield controls

      Central bank raises interest rate cap under pressure from weakening yen, inflation and rising US Treasuries

      Kazuo Ueda
    • Monday, 30 October, 2023
      Bank of Japan
      Bank of Japan under pressure from weak yen and soaring yields

      Two-day policy meeting could end with changes to trading band for government bonds

      Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda
    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      Sovereign bonds
      How much will the death of Japan’s YCC matter?

      The answer might surprise you

    • Tuesday, 17 October, 2023
      Inside BusinessDavid Keohane
      Japanese consumption is suffering from a pandemic-era shift

      Changes to how people live and work have depressed demand in areas such as fitness clubs, pachinko parlours and after-office restaurants

      Outside a restaurant in Sapporo
    • Monday, 16 October, 2023
      ETF HubLatest news on ETFs
      Stock lending weakens BoJ’s ETF buying programme, BIS paper claims

      Researchers suggest reduced lending fees encourage short selling and that impact is greater on hard-to-borrow stocks

      A Japanese national flag flies outside the Bank of Japan in Tokyo
    • Friday, 6 October, 2023
      News in-depth
      Kishida calls on BlackRock and other funds to ‘invest’ in Japan’s future

      Larry Fink and other investors hear prime minister outline reform plans

      PM Fumio Kishida, in New York last month
    • Friday, 6 October, 2023
      Masazumi Wakatabe
      Lessons for China from Japan’s lost decade

      Beijing is confronting slowing growth, falling prices and rising youth unemployment. From Tokyo, this all looks familiar

      View from above of busy traders at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 1990
    • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
      Leo Lewis
      Why Japan’s demographics scream ‘buy’

      Labour deficit means companies are freed from having to keep excess staff and can focus on what they are best at

      Illustration of a man standing next to a giant globe pointing to the part where Japan is — with black tape stuck next to it on the globe.
    • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
      Japanese government bonds
      Bank of Japan buys $12.7bn of bonds as yields hit highest in a decade

      Purchases come as global market sell-off drives US Treasury rates

      A man walks past the Bank of Japan building in Tokyo
    • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Japan
      Investors read the runes on course of Japan’s monetary policy

      Central bank watchers deeply divided on when and how ultra-loose approach will unwind

      Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda chats with US Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell and European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde
    • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Japan
      Japan’s prime minister Kishida says: ‘reassess our economy’

      Investors, notably in Asia, seek reassurance that bounceback will last, as ‘unpredictable’ China loses its sheen

      People take pictures on an escalator of an observation deck
    • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
      Special Report
      Investing in Japan

      Prime minister Kishida says: reassess our economy; yen falls, inflation bites; equities offer ‘new opportunity’; Bank of Japan rates scrutinised; overseas property buyers keen to enter; population strain prompts pension action; art market surges

      Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at an event hosted by the Economic Club of New York
    • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
      Bruce Kirk
      It’s time for Japanese equities to leave the doldrums

      Ukraine and pandemic aftermath set scene for reversal of main stock index underperformance

      A man walks past an electronic board showing the numbers on the Tokyo Stock Exchange along a street in Tokyo
    • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Japan
      Yen tumbles and shares soar as Japan inflation begins to bite

      Export industries report all-time highs, while households face rising cost of imports

      A worker assembles a vehicle on the production line of a factory
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