{"id":474780,"date":"2026-05-30T13:40:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/474780\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T13:40:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T13:40:41","slug":"boj-will-probably-raise-rates-in-june-former-board-member-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/474780\/","title":{"rendered":"BOJ will probably raise rates in June, former board member says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank of Japan will probably raise its benchmark rate next month at a meeting that will determine whether authorities can keep from falling behind the curve in fighting inflation, according to a former board member of the central bank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will probably raise rates this time,\u201d Makoto Sakurai, who served on the BOJ\u2019s board from 2016 to 2021, said in an interview on Friday. \u201cIf they don\u2019t, their policy will fall into a state of being behind. This meeting is of grave importance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sakurai added that the June 15-16 meeting comes at a critical juncture for the BOJ. If officials don\u2019t move this time, they may miss the window for action \u2014 and wind up having to postpone the next hike indefinitely amid persistent high uncertainties stemming from the Iran conflict, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bank of Japan will probably raise its benchmark rate next month at a meeting that will determine&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13601,72,113,61,1095,60,8672,25204,36269],"class_list":["post-474780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-boj","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-inflation","tag-ireland","tag-japanese-economy","tag-sanae-takaichi","tag-yen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474780","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=474780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}