{"id":251173,"date":"2026-01-18T13:50:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T13:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/251173\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T13:50:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T13:50:28","slug":"boj-refrains-from-show-of-support-for-feds-powell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/251173\/","title":{"rendered":"BOJ refrains from show of support for Fed&#8217;s Powell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\/bank-of-japan\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bank of Japan<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Japan eyes relations with US even as more central banks voice solidarity<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/7\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"20260115N Ueda Powell\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">BOJ Gov. Kazuo Ueda did not sign a joint letter of support for Jerome Powell that included the central bank heads of South Korea and Australia.\u00a0(Source photos by Nikkei and Reuters)<\/p>\n<p>YUTA SAITO and TAKERO MINAMI<\/p>\n<p>January 16, 2026 06:56 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO\/BASEL, Switzerland &#8212; The Bank of Japan&#8217;s decision not to join a growing chorus of support for embattled U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell shows the thin line it is trying to toe to balance independence with politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bank of Japan Japan eyes relations with US even as more central banks voice solidarity BOJ Gov. Kazuo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13601,72,113,125791,61,60,30143,125790,8166,2057],"class_list":["post-251173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-boj","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-feds","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-powell","tag-refrains","tag-show","tag-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}