“My view is that ... the output gap is already in positive territory in reality and the lack of supply capacity is exerting upward pressure on prices,” Naoki Tamura, a hawkish BOJ board ...

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 ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan must raise interest rates more as keeping them at current low levels could cause excessive risk-taking and push up inflation too much, its board member Hajime ...

Board member Naoki Tamura also said earlier this month the BOJ must raise rates to at least 1% by early 2026. The hawkish BOJ signals have led markets to price in a roughly 80% chance of a rate ...

The central bank's hawkish board member Naoki Tamura said this month that the BOJ must raise interest rates to at least 1% by the second half of the fiscal year beginning April. About 44% of ...

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