{"id":9106,"date":"2025-10-20T13:38:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/boj-board-hawk-calls-for-rate-hike-as-japans-price-norm-shifts\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T13:38:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:38:43","slug":"boj-board-hawk-calls-for-rate-hike-as-japans-price-norm-shifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/boj-board-hawk-calls-for-rate-hike-as-japans-price-norm-shifts\/","title":{"rendered":"BOJ board hawk calls for rate hike as Japan\u2019s price norm shifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Bank of Japan board member Hajime Takata said the time is ripe for raising the bank&rsquo;s policy interest rate, looking past political instability to reiterate his conviction after he dissented from a decision to hold policy steady last month.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I believe that now is a prime opportunity to raise the policy interest rate,&rdquo; Takata said Monday in a speech to local business leaders in Hiroshima. &ldquo;The once deeply entrenched norm has waned in Japan, that the price stability target has been almost achieved.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Takata noted in his first speech after his rate hike proposal the importance of addressing inflation levels that have exceeded the BOJ&rsquo;s target for more than three years. His comments indicate his unflinching support for a higher rate even as it has become increasingly likely that Sanae Takaichi, an advocate of monetary easing, will become Japan&rsquo;s next prime minister this week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>BOJ board hawk calls for rate hike as Japan&rsquo;s price norm shifts<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bank of Japan board member Hajime Takata said the time is ripe for raising the bank&rsquo;s policy interest rate, looking past political instability to reiterate his conviction after he dissented from a decision to hold policy steady last month. &ldquo;I believe that now is a prime opportunity to raise the policy interest rate,&rdquo; Takata said&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/boj-board-hawk-calls-for-rate-hike-as-japans-price-norm-shifts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;BOJ board hawk calls for rate hike as Japan\u2019s price norm shifts&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}