In a speech to business leaders in Nagano prefecture in central Japan, Naoki Tamura said that the central bank should raise rates to 1% or higher in the fiscal half starting in October.

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 ...

The remark by the policymaker Naoki Tamura came after the BOJ lifted its key short-term rate from 0.25 percent to a 17-year high of 0.5 percent late last month. With upside risks to prices ...

On Thursday, BOJ board member Naoki Tamura said that it was "necessary" for the BOJ to raise short-term interest rates to "at least around 1%" by the second half of fiscal year 2025. Japan's 2025 ...

Bank of Japan board member Naoki Tamura recently said that the Japanese central bank (BoJ) must hike the policy rate to at least 1% in the latter part of fiscal year ending in Mar 2026.