Bank of Japan keeps interest rates unchanged at 0.5%, as widely expected
Following its third rate increase in January, the Bank of Japan held its key short-term interest rate steady at around 0.5% ...
BOJ Keeps Interest Rates Steady as Widely Expected
As widely expected, the board decided to keep the BOJ's short-term policy rate unchanged at 0.5% by a unanimous vote. BOJ ...
BOJ set to keep interest rates steady as Trump risks cloud outlook
The Bank of Japan is set to keep interest rates unchanged on Wednesday, as policymakers spend more time gauging how prospects ...
How two art forms, baseball and manga, became intertwined in Japan
All are beloved fictional baseball characters found through the decades within Japanese comic books, the artform now known worldwide as manga. And all stand on equal ground with the likes of Shohei ...
BOJ to Hike Rates Gradually Given Wage Outlook, Goldman Says
Akira Otani, a former top BOJ economist who is currently managing director at Goldman Sachs Japan, expects inflation to ...
From Nomo to Ichiro to Ohtani: Japan’s baseball rise in MLB hits high point in Dodgers-Cubs series
Nearly 25 years after Ichiro Suzuki embarked on a Hall of Fame career for the Seattle Mariners, the impact of Japanese ...
America’s Pastime Is Being Completely Transformed—by Japan
When the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs square off in Tokyo this week for MLB’s season-opening series, it will ...
From Oh to Ohtani and beyond: How Japanese baseball reached new heights
No player in professional baseball history has slugged more home runs than the 868 that Oh hit over 22 seasons with the ...
Japan Isn’t Manipulating Currency Rates, Prime Minister Ishiba Says
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba reiterated that Japan isn’t intentionally pushing down the yen’s value to lower the ...
‘Paint Japan blue’: How the Dodgers’ vision of Japanese prominence became reality
Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki are all Dodgers. And a Japanese fan base has coalesced around its interest ...
Nervous About the U.S. Stock Market? How to Hedge Against a Crash—Without the Panic.
Stocks in Europe and Japan are moving ahead U.S. shares this year. Here’s what you can do now—without panicking.