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 ...

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 ...

Hawkish comments from the Bank of Japan and sticky inflation are lifting bond yields to multi-year highs and pushing forward rate hike expectations, shaking long-held views that rates would not rise ...