The Bank of Japan is keeping financial markets jittery over what its potential next moves will be following a two-day policy-setting meeting after its surprise decision to raise its long-term yield ceiling last month.
The Bank of Japan's surprise decision to allow long-term interest rates to move in a wider range will likely raise borrowing rates for households taking out housing loans.
A Japanese court sentences a man to three years in prison, suspended for five years, for damaging a building of an international school in Osaka Prefecture, in what is widely seen as a hate crime.
The Bank of Japan keeps its ultralow rate policy intact at the end of a two-day meeting in a widely expected move, despite upgrading its inflation outlook amid surging energy costs and a weak yen.
More than 400 people call for the eradication of hate crimes as they denounce an arson attack in August on a settlement of Korean residents in Kyoto Prefecture.