Bank of Japan (BoJ)
Bank of Japan is pressured to take action
JAPAN - Japanese lawmakers tightened the screws on the Bank of Japan by advancing legislation that would force it to take more aggressive action to stimulate the world's second-largest economy.
Japan Shiokawa/ Hayami: Reiterate need to reflate
JAPAN - Japanese Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa told Bank of Japan Governor Masaru Hayami on Friday he wants the BOJ to boost consumer prices back to levels seen before Japan was gripped by deflation.
BOJ: Don't plan to weaken Yen by intervention
JAPAN - The Bank of Japan has no plan to intervene in currency markets to weaken the yen as a way to ease Japan's debilitating deflationary conditions, a senior BOJ official said Wednesday.
Bank of Japan Monetary Policy Meeting
REPORT - Bank of Japan Monetary Policy Meeting, 29 October. Outlook and Risk Assessment of the Economy and Prices (October 2001).
Bank of Japan Monetary Policy Meeting
REPORT - Bank of Japan Monetary Policy Meeting, 29 October. Announcement of the Monetary Policy Meeting decisions (unchanged).
Bank of Japan warns of recession
JAPAN - The Bank of Japan has acknowledged the world's second largest economy will shrink this year by cutting a growth forecast for 2001 that many economists have long viewed as unrealistic.
Speech by Yutaka Yamaguchi of the Bank of Japan
SPEECH - Remarks by Yutaka Yamaguchi, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan, at the JCIF International Finance Seminar on 17 October.
BOJ Mitani: Econ close to deflationary spiral
JAPAN - Many companies in Western Japan think the economy is on the verge of a deflationary spiral, the manager of the Bank of Japan's Osaka branch said Monday.
Hayami says Greenspan against inflation targeting
JAPAN - Bank of Japan Governor Masaru Hayami said on Thursday U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan had told him the U.S. central bank chief was opposed to the idea of setting an inflation target for central banks.
Bank of Japan Monthly Economic Report
MONTHLY REPORT - The Bank of Japan today published its regular Monthly Report of Recent Economic and Financial Developments, October 2001.
Bank of Japan issues grim outlook
JAPAN - The Bank of Japan, as widely expected, downgraded its assessment of the economy, citing a continued tumble in output and exports, deteriorating job and income conditions, and an increasingly bleak economic outlook following the 11 September…
Japan's central bank warns on economy
JAPAN - The Bank of Japan has warned that the country's economy is facing "more severe" adjustments, with the "terrorist attacks in the US... further [heightening] uncertainty".
Japan's policy board keep monetary policy same
JAPAN - The Bank of Japan's policy board voted Friday 12 October to keep monetary policy unchanged, brushing aside mounting domestic and international pressure for the BOJ to flood the banking system with more cash to help support the sagging economy.
BOJ should take untraditional measures - Takenaka
JAPAN - Conventional liquidity provisions aren't enough and the Bank of Japan should consider untraditional steps to deal with Japan's economic woes, economy minister Heizo Takenaka said Friday.
BoJ fund draining casts doubt over prospects
JAPAN - The Bank of Japan has withdrawn much of the extra money that it pumped into the Japanese economy in the wake of the 11 September terrorist attacks, casting further doubts over the country's dismal growth outlook.
Bank of Japan warns on loosening monetary policy
JAPAN - Masaru Hayami, governor of the Bank of Japan, warned yesterday that loosening monetary policy could trigger hyperinflation, highlighting the growing gap between the Bank of Japan's thinking and that of the government and many private sector…
BOJ faces pressure to take more radical steps
JAPAN - The Bank of Japan's Policy Board will come under intense pressure this week to take more radical actions in countering what many fear is the growing threat of a deflationary spiral in the economy.
Hayami: Financial systems more stable than 1998
JAPAN - Bank of Japan Governor Masaru Hayami said Thursday 4 October that Japan's financial system is much more stable than it was in 1998, when the nation came to the brink of a full-blown financial crisis.
Bank of Japan - Monetary policy meeting minutes
REPORT - Minutes of the Monetary Policy Meeting of the Bank of Japan held on 13 and 14 August.
Bank of Japan board voted 8-1 to ease policy
JAPAN - The Bank of Japan (BOJ) on Tuesday released the minutes of its monetary policy meeting held on August 13-14.
Bank of Japan - Monthly Report - September 2001
REPORT - Bank of Japan Monthly Report of Recent Economic and Financial Developments, September 2001 released 21 September.
More gloom for Japan as BoJ downgrades economy
JAPAN - Confidence in Japan's precarious economy was further undermined on Thursday 20 September as the Bank of Japan lowered its assessment of the economy for the fourth time in as many months and official figures showed a 47.2 per cent slide in the…
Very hard to tell when Japan CPI to exceed zero
JAPAN - Bank of Japan Governor Masaru Hayami said today, 21 September, it is very difficult to tell at this time when Japan's consumer price index will begin increasing.
BOJ Yamaguchi - Need vigilance if war mood rises
JAPAN - Bank of Japan Deputy Governor Yutaka Yamaguchi said today, 21 September, the central bank must be vigilant to maintain market stability if the world gets closer to being on a war footing.