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BOJ raises key rate to 30-year-high of 0.75%

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda attends a press conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2025, following the second day of a two-day policy-setting meeting at which the BOJ raised its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent from 0.50 percent.

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BOJ raises key rate to 30-year-high of 0.75%

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda attends a press conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2025, following the second day of a two-day policy-setting meeting at which the BOJ raised its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent from 0.50 percent.

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Benchmark bond yield hits 26-year high

A financial monitor in Tokyo shows the yield on the newly issued benchmark 10-year government bond rising to 2.015 percent, its highest in about 26 years and four months, on Dec. 19, 2025, following a Bank of Japan raise earlier in the day in its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent.

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Benchmark bond yield hits 26-year high

A financial monitor in Tokyo shows the yield on the newly issued benchmark 10-year government bond rising to 2.015 percent, its highest in about 26 years and four months, on Dec. 19, 2025, following a Bank of Japan raise earlier in the day in its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent.

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Benchmark bond yield hits 26-year high

A financial monitor in Tokyo shows the yield on the newly issued benchmark 10-year government bond rising to 2.015 percent, its highest in about 26 years and four months, on Dec. 19, 2025, following a Bank of Japan raise earlier in the day in its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent.

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Benchmark bond yield hits 26-year high

A financial monitor in Tokyo shows the yield on the newly issued benchmark 10-year government bond rising to 2.015 percent, its highest in about 26 years and four months, on Dec. 19, 2025, following a Bank of Japan raise earlier in the day in its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent.

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Benchmark bond yield hits 26-year high

A financial monitor in Tokyo shows the yield on the newly issued benchmark 10-year government bond rising to 2.015 percent, its highest in about 26 years and four months, on Dec. 19, 2025, following a Bank of Japan raise earlier in the day in its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent.

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BOJ raises key rate to 30-year-high of 0.75%

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda attends a press conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2025, following the second day of a two-day policy-setting meeting at which the BOJ raised its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent from 0.50 percent.

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BOJ raises key rate to 30-year-high of 0.75%

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda attends a press conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2025, following the second day of a two-day policy-setting meeting at which the BOJ raised its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent from 0.50 percent.

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BOJ raises key rate to 30-year-high of 0.75%

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda attends a press conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2025, following the second day of a two-day policy-setting meeting at which the BOJ raised its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent from 0.50 percent.

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BOJ raises key rate to 30-year-high of 0.75%

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda attends a press conference at the central bank's headquarters in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2025, following the second day of a two-day policy-setting meeting at which the BOJ raised its key interest rate to a 30-year high of around 0.75 percent from 0.50 percent.

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Aeon launches large shopping mall in Wuhan

WUHAN, China - Photo shows a shopping mall that Aeon Co. launched in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Dec. 19, 2014. It is the 14th shopping mall set up by the Japanese retail giant in China, and Aeon plans to open four more malls in Wuhan in around two years.

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300 mil. yen Christmas tree featuring "Frozen" unveiled

TOKYO, Japan - A 300 million yen Christmas tree featuring characters from the Disney animation film "Frozen" is unveiled on Nov. 19, 2014, at a jewelry shop, Ginza Tanaka, in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district. The 2.6-meter tree contains around 31 kilograms of pure platinum.

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300 mil. yen Christmas tree featuring "Frozen" unveiled

TOKYO, Japan - A 300 million yen Christmas tree featuring characters from the Disney animation film "Frozen" is unveiled on Nov. 19, 2014, at a jewelry shop, Ginza Tanaka, in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district. The 2.6-meter tree contains around 31 kilograms of pure platinum.

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Emperor, empress attend IBA annual meeting in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Japan Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko raise their glasses during a reception for an annual meeting of the International Bar Association in Tokyo on Oct. 19, 2014, a day before the empress' 80th birthday. About 4,000 lawyers from around 130 countries are attending the six-day meeting.

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Emperor, empress attend IBA annual meeting in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses the opening ceremony for an annual meeting of the International Bar Association in Tokyo on Oct. 19, 2014. About 4,000 lawyers from around 130 countries are attending the six-day meeting.

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Emperor, empress attend IBA annual meeting in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko attend the opening ceremony for an annual meeting of the International Bar Association in Tokyo on Oct. 19, 2014, a day before the empress' 80th birthday. About 4,000 lawyers from around 130 countries are attending the six-day meeting.

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30,000 sunflowers in full bloom in Hokkaido's Ozora town

KUSHIRO, Japan - Around 30,000 sunflowers are seen in full bloom out of season in the town of Ozora, Hokkaido, on Oct. 19, 2014. The temperature, which plunged below zero at the lowest, rose to 19 degrees during daytime in the town due to fair weather.

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Japan donates musical instruments to Kosovo orchestra

VIENNA, Austria - Japanese Ambassador to Austria Makoto Taketoshi (L center), who doubles as envoy for Kosovo, hands a violin to Kosovo Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports Memli Krasniqi, during a ceremony in the Kosovo capital Pristina on March 19, 2014, to mark the donation of around 100 violins and other musical instruments to the Kosovo Philharmonic. The donation is part of the Japanese government's support for the restoration of the country's cultural heritage following ethnic clashes there in the late 1990s.

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Japan Display makes weak debut on TSE

TOKYO, Japan - Shuichi Otsuka, president and chief executive officer of Japan Display Inc., speaks at a press conference at the Tokyo Stock Exchange on March 19, 2014, about the company's debut on the TSE's First Section. The world's largest manufacturer of liquid crystal displays for smartphones and tablets ended the day's trading at 763 yen, around 15 percent lower than its initial offering price of 900 yen.

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Lambs at theme park in Hokkaido

SAPPORO, Japan - Around 270 lambs are seen in a plastic greenhouse at the Ecorin Village garden theme park in Eniwa in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on March 19, 2014. The lambs will go on public display in late April.

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Stickers in Japanese hotel rooms show direction of Mecca

KANSAI AIRPORT, Japan - A cleric from Indonesia places a sticker showing the direction of Mecca on the ceiling of a suite room at Hotel Nikko Kansai Airport in Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture, on Sept. 19, 2013. The hotel began attaching the stickers the same day in all of its 576 guest rooms, a process that it expects to take around 10 days, to cater to Muslim guests.

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Chocolate cherry blossom

TOKYO, Japan - A cherry blossom artwork made of chocolate is unveiled to the media in Tokyo on Dec. 19, 2012. Students from the University of Tokyo and Tokyo University of the Arts as well as an artist took part in the project to make the work, about 1.20 meters in diameter and weighing around 85 kilograms, using KitKat, a chocolate product made by Nestle Japan Ltd., to encourage students preparing for entrance examinations. The work will be exhibited at Cafe Nescafe Harajuku in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward from Dec. 20 through Jan. 8.

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Tokyo Sky Tree fully lit up

TOKYO, Japan - Combination photo taken from a Kyodo News helicopter on April 19, 2012, shows Tokyo Sky Tree in Tokyo's Sumida Ward being lit up in blue (L) and purple. The operator of the world's tallest self-standing tower conducted tests to light up the 634-meter tower using all of its around 2,000 light-emitting diode lamps ahead of its opening on May 22. The two colors will be used alternately, every other day, to light up the tower.

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Police search for bodies from 2011 disaster

FUKUSHIMA, Japan - Photo taken Feb. 19, 2012, shows an area inside a no-go zone around the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the coast of Fukushima Prefecture, where around 100 police officers searched for the bodies of people still listed as missing following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami the same day. The exhaust pipes of the power plant can be seen in the background.

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30,000 old 'hina' dolls

TOKUSHIMA, Japan - Around 30,000 old ''hina'' dolls, collected from homes nationwide, are displayed on an 8-meter-high pyramid stand in the town of Katsuura, Tokushima Prefecture, on Feb. 19, 2012, for a festival that started the same day and runs until March 20. The dolls are usually displayed on a much smaller stand in Japanese homes to bring happiness to young girls around early March.

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Young wrestlers compete in Hakuho Cup

SAKAI, Japan - Mongolian grand champion Hakuho speaks at the first Hakuho Cup, an event initiated by the yokozuna to promote exchanges between Japan and Mongolia, in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on Dec. 19, 2010. Around 750 elementary and middle school students, including eight Mongolians, competed in the event.

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Young wrestlers compete in Hakuho Cup

SAKAI, Japan - Mongolian grand champion Hakuho (C) poses for photos with young contenders for the first Hakuho Cup, an event initiated by the yokozuna to promote exchanges between Japan and Mongolia, in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on Dec. 19, 2010. Around 750 elementary and middle school students, including eight Mongolians, competed in the event.

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Mitsubishi Chemical agrees to acquire Mitsubishi Rayon

TOKYO, Japan - Yoshimitsu Kobayashi (L), president of Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corp., and Masanao Kambara, president of Mitsubishi Rayon Co., shake hands during a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on Nov. 19, 2009, at which they announced that Mitsubishi Chemical is aiming to turn Mitsubishi Rayon into a wholly owned subsidiary by next March in a deal that could be worth around 200 billion yen.