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...In October, Japan celebrates the 60th birthday of the shinkansen bullet train, an engineering marvel opened for the 1964 Olympics as proof of the nation’s rising industrial power....
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...The Bank of Japan’s monetary policy committee is not expected to change interest rates when it meets on Friday, but there will be a lot of interest in its Outlook Report. One more thing . . ....
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...But on Tuesday, after eight years in the negative, the Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda pulled it off in smooth style....
...The Bank of Japan has raised interest rates for the first time since 2007, becoming the world’s last central bank to end negative rates as the country puts decades of deflation behind it....
...Several board members at the Bank of Japan called for a gradual path towards policy normalisation when the central bank last week raised interest rates for the first time since 2007....
...Policymakers at the Bank of Japan are tackling a series of thorny policy debates as they confront the practicalities of raising interest rates for the first time since the summer of 2006....
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...But there has been little to no explanation of how Japan, a close ally of the US, could pose a meaningful threat....
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