Leading Japanese banks will raise their fixed housing loan rates in January following a Dec. 20 policy tweak by the Bank of Japan that pushed up long-term interest rates, sources said.

A trading room about an hour’s train ride from Tokyo is on the radar of Japanese government bond investors waiting to see whether domestic banks will resume buying the nation’s debt in earnest.

Following its third rate increase in January, the Bank of Japan held its key short-term interest rate steady at around 0.5% ...

One year on from Japan’s historic rate hike, profits at its biggest banks are soaring to records, while price rises are forcing consumers to cut back and higher borrowing costs are fueling a ...

Japan Post Holdings is planning to sell shares in Japan Post Bank which could total some 600 billion yen ($4.02 billion), two sources familiar with the matter said, in the latest loosening of ties ...