{"id":284124,"date":"2026-02-14T17:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T17:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/284124\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T17:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T17:15:10","slug":"takaichi-expecting-additional-boj-rate-hike-but-not-in-spring-adviser-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/284124\/","title":{"rendered":"Takaichi expecting additional BOJ rate hike \u2014 but not in spring \u2014 adviser says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi expects the Bank of japan to raise its policy interest rate in the near future, Etsuro Honda, an economic adviser to the leader, has said in a recent interview.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that an additional rate hike of 0.25 percentage point in the not-so-distant future is within the prime minister&#8217;s expectations,&#8221; Honda, former special adviser to the Cabinet, said, suggesting that she would tolerate a rate increase from the current 0.75% to 1%.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Honda expressed skepticism about the possibility of implementing such a hike this spring, saying, &#8220;March or April would be too early.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Honda is known for backing Abenomics, the reflationary policy mix of the late former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Abenomics features monetary easing, among other stimulative measures.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/japantimes\/uploads\/images\/2026\/02\/14\/523518.jpg\" class=\"fresco\" data-fresco-group=\"inline_images\" data-fresco-caption=\"Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks during a news conference at LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Monday. | POOL \/ VIA AFP-JIJI\" data-fresco-group-options=\"ui: &#039;inside&#039;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/japantimes\/uploads\/images\/2026\/02\/14\/523518.jpg\" alt=\"Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks during a news conference at LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Monday.\" title=\"Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks during a news conference at LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Monday.\" onerror=\"this.src=\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n             Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, speaks during a news conference at LDP headquarters in Tokyo on Monday.<br \/>\n                          |  POOL \/ VIA AFP-JIJI\n                      <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Abenomics had a clear goal of overcoming deflation, but now we are in an inflationary trend,&#8221; Honda said. &#8220;I think (Takaichi) no longer holds the view that interest rates should be lowered further,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding recent foreign exchange market developments, Honda said that the prime minister is &#8220;thinking about leveraging the yen&#8217;s weakness to promote the recovery of the Japanese economy, rather than correcting the depreciation of the Japanese currency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Honda added that Takaichi sees the need to address the yen&#8217;s excessive decline, which is a concern among financial market players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi expects the Bank of japan to raise its policy interest rate in the near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[30379,138,912,219,1943,3508,39489,111,139,69,53957],"class_list":{"0":"post-284124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-boj","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-currencies","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-inflation","13":"tag-interest-rates","14":"tag-kazuo-ueda","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-sanae-takaichi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}