SBI Shinsei is the only major Japanese lender that has not fully paid back public money owed from the time when its predecessor, the Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan, collapsed in 1998 in the wake ...

For the first time ever, the Bank of Japan holds just over half of all ... The BOJ has its targets set on maintaining a long-term interest rate lower than around 0.25 percent, so it bought up ...

Market speculation that the Bank of Japan may further revise its monetary easing policy apparently pushed up a key long-term interest rate to a level not seen in about 11 years. The yield on the ...