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Bank of Japan raises policy rate to 1.25%โ€ฆ highest in 31 years

Bank of Japan raises policy rate to 1.25%โ€ฆ highest in 31 years

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September 18th, 2026

Bank of Japan raises policy rate to 1.25%โ€ฆ highest in 31 years

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By raising its benchmark interest rate from 1.0% to 1.25% on Friday, the Bank of Japan brought it to its highest level in 31 years.

์ผ๋ณธ ์ค‘์•™์€ํ–‰์€ ๊ธˆ์š”์ผ ๊ธฐ์ค€๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ 1.0%์—์„œ 1.25%๋กœ ์ธ์ƒํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ์ด๋Š” 31๋…„ ๋งŒ์— ์ตœ๊ณ  ์ˆ˜์ค€์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

After keeping interest rates at or below zero for decades in order to encourage borrowing and spending, with the aim of countering deflation and lifting the Japanese economy out of stagnation, the Bank of Japan has been attempting to normalize its monetary policy.

์ผ๋ณธ์€ํ–‰์€ ์ˆ˜์‹ญ ๋…„๊ฐ„ ๋””ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์— ๋Œ€์‘ํ•˜๊ณ  ์ผ๋ณธ ๊ฒฝ์ œ๋ฅผ ์นจ์ฒด์—์„œ ๋ฒ—์–ด๋‚˜๊ฒŒ ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ฐจ์ž…๊ณผ ์ง€์ถœ์„ ์žฅ๋ คํ•  ๋ชฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ œ๋กœ ๋˜๋Š” ๊ทธ ์ดํ•˜๋กœ ์œ ์ง€ํ•ด์˜จ ํ›„ ํ†ตํ™”์ •์ฑ… ์ •์ƒํ™”๋ฅผ ์‹œ๋„ํ•ด ์™”๋‹ค.

This increase in the uncollateralized call rate, a short-term interest rate that had been anticipated at the conclusion of the two-day monetary policy meeting, has been widely reflected in global markets in recent days.

์ดํ‹€๊ฐ„์˜ ํ†ตํ™”์ •์ฑ…ํšŒ์˜ ๋์— ์˜ˆ์ƒ๋˜์—ˆ๋˜ ๋‹จ๊ธฐ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ์ธ ๋ฌด๋‹ด๋ณด ์ฝœ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ธ์ƒ์€ ์ตœ๊ทผ ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ์‹œ์žฅ์— ๋„๋ฆฌ ๋ฐ˜์˜๋˜์–ด ์™”๋‹ค.

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda stated that the decision was reached after reviewing various risks, including the war in Iran, growing market demand for artificial intelligence, and exchange rate fluctuations.

์šฐ์—๋‹ค ๊ฐ€์ฆˆ์˜ค ์ผ๋ณธ์€ํ–‰ ์ด์žฌ๋Š” ์ด๋ž€ ์ „์Ÿ, ์ธ๊ณต์ง€๋Šฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์‹œ์žฅ ์ˆ˜์š” ํ™•๋Œ€, ํ™˜์œจ ๋ณ€๋™ ๋“ฑ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์œ„ํ—˜์„ ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•œ ๋์— ๊ฒฐ์ •์— ๋„๋‹ฌํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

Addressing reporters, he remarked that "the Japanese economy is continuing its gradual recovery," and elaborated that inflation is approaching the 2% target.

๊ทธ๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ž๋“ค์„ ํ–ฅํ•ด "์ผ๋ณธ ๊ฒฝ์ œ๋Š” ์ ์ง„์ ์ธ ํšŒ๋ณต์„ธ๋ฅผ ์ง€์†ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ์–ธ๊ธ‰ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์ด ๋ชฉํ‘œ์น˜์ธ 2%์— ๊ทผ์ ‘ํ•ด ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์„ ๋ถ€์—ฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Analysts have said that an additional rate hike is possible late this year or early next year.

๋ถ„์„๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ์˜ฌํ•ด ๋ง์ด๋‚˜ ๋‚ด๋…„ ์ดˆ์— ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์ธ์ƒ์ด ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•ด์™”๋‹ค.

When asked about an additional rate hike, Ueda stressed that more time is needed to confirm whether inflation remains stable, and that wage growth and other risk factors need to be monitored.

์ถ”๊ฐ€ ์ธ์ƒ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ๋ฐ›์ž, ์šฐ์—๋‹ค๋Š” ๋ฌผ๊ฐ€ ์ƒ์Šน์ด ์•ˆ์ •์ ์œผ๋กœ ์œ ์ง€๋˜๋Š”์ง€ ํ™•์ธํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๋” ๋งŽ์€ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์ž„๊ธˆ ์„ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ์œ„ํ—˜ ์š”์ธ๋“ค์„ ๋ชจ๋‹ˆํ„ฐ๋งํ•  ํ•„์š”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฐ•์กฐํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

According to Ueda, two of the nine board members expressed opposition, raising concerns about the strength of Japan's economic growth.

์šฐ์—๋‹ค์— ์˜ํ•˜๋ฉด, 9๋ช…์˜ ์œ„์› ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ 2๋ช…์€ ์ผ๋ณธ ๊ฒฝ์ œ ์„ฑ์žฅ์˜ ๊ฐ•๋„์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ ค๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ธฐํ•˜๋ฉฐ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ ์ž…์žฅ์„ ํ‘œ๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The US Federal Reserve likewise raised its key interest rate this week.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์—ฐ๋ฐฉ์ค€๋น„์ œ๋„ ์—ญ์‹œ ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ์— ์ฃผ์š” ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ธ์ƒํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.

Wednesday's US rate hike, the first since 2023, was part of an effort to tame inflation that has stubbornly continued to soar.

2023๋…„ ์ดํ›„ ์ฒ˜์Œ์œผ๋กœ ๋‹จํ–‰๋œ ์ˆ˜์š”์ผ์˜ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ์€ ์™„๊ฐ•ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๊ณ ๊ณตํ–‰์ง„์„ ์ง€์†ํ•˜๋Š” ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์„ ์ง„์ •์‹œํ‚ค๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์˜ ์ผํ™˜์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

The United States has also been pressing Japan to raise interest rates, driven by concerns over the yen's weakness.

๋ฏธ๊ตญ์€ ๋˜ํ•œ ์—”ํ™” ์•ฝ์„ธ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์šฐ๋ ค๋กœ ์ธํ•ด ์ผ๋ณธ์— ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ์••๋ฐ•ํ•ด ์˜จ ๋ฐ” ์žˆ๋‹ค.

The two countries recently intervened jointly in the foreign exchange market to defend the value of the yen.

์–‘๊ตญ์€ ์ตœ๊ทผ ์—”ํ™” ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐฉ์–ดํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ณต๋™์œผ๋กœ ์™ธํ™˜์‹œ์žฅ์— ๊ฐœ์ž…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Despite the Bank of Japan's measures, the US dollar instead strengthened further, temporarily surpassing 157 yen.

์ผ๋ณธ์€ํ–‰์˜ ์กฐ์น˜์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ , ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๋‹ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋Š” ์˜คํžˆ๋ ค ๋”์šฑ ๊ฐ•์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด๋ฉฐ ์ผ์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœ 157์—”์„ ์ƒํšŒํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Earlier this year, it had exceeded 160 yen.

์˜ฌํ•ด ์ดˆ์—๋Š” 160์—”์„ ๋„˜์–ด์„  ๋ฐ” ์žˆ๋‹ค.

The Bank of Japan has set an inflation target of approximately 2%.

์ผ๋ณธ์€ํ–‰์€ ์•ฝ 2%์˜ ๋ชฉํ‘œ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์œจ์„ ์„ค์ •ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Although Japan's inflation is currently close to that target, some consumers complain that the recent surge in prices, particularly for gas and oil-related products, has been excessively severe.

์ผ๋ณธ์˜ ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์€ ํ˜„์žฌ ๊ทธ ๋ชฉํ‘œ์น˜์— ๊ทผ์ ‘ํ•œ ์ˆ˜์ค€์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์ผ๋ถ€ ์†Œ๋น„์ž๋“ค์€ ํŠนํžˆ ๊ฐ€์Šค์™€ ์„์œ  ๊ด€๋ จ ์ œํ’ˆ์˜ ์ตœ๊ทผ ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ ๊ธ‰๋“ฑ์ด ์ง€๋‚˜์น˜๊ฒŒ ์‹ฌ๊ฐํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ถˆ๋งŒ์„ ์ œ๊ธฐํ•œ๋‹ค.

Harumi Taguchi, an economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence, said, "With crude oil prices still elevated, the Bank of Japan is likely to raise interest rates again before long in order to contain the risk that consumer inflation will outpace the underlying inflation rate."

S&P ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๋งˆ์ผ“ ์ธํ…”๋ฆฌ์ „์Šค์˜ ์ด์ฝ”๋…ธ๋ฏธ์ŠคํŠธ ๋‹ค๊ตฌ์น˜ ํ•˜๋ฃจ๋ฏธ๋Š” "์›์œ  ๊ฐ€๊ฒฉ์ด ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๋†’์€ ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ, ์ผ๋ณธ์€ํ–‰์€ ์†Œ๋น„์ž ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์ด ๊ธฐ์ € ์ธํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์…˜์œจ์„ ์›ƒ๋Œ ์œ„ํ—˜์„ ์–ต์ œํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์กฐ๋งŒ๊ฐ„ ์ถ”๊ฐ€ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ ์ธ์ƒ์„ ๋‹จํ–‰ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค"๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

She further noted that elevated interest rates could weigh on the economy by driving up borrowing costs for small and medium-sized enterprises and pushing up mortgage rates.

๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ๋˜ํ•œ ๋†’์€ ๊ธˆ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ค‘์†Œ๊ธฐ์—…์˜ ์ฐจ์ž… ๋น„์šฉ ์ฆ๊ฐ€์™€ ์ฃผํƒ๋‹ด๋ณด๋Œ€์ถœ ์ƒ์Šน์„ ์•ผ๊ธฐํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์— ๋ถ€๋‹ด์„ ์ดˆ๋ž˜ํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€๋‹ค.

Analysts are also concerned about bold public spending, such as the tax cuts and aggressive defense investment promised by Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae's government, especially as public debt is already soaring.

๋ถ„์„๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ๋˜ํ•œ ๊ณต๊ณต ๋ถ€์ฑ„๊ฐ€ ์ด๋ฏธ ๊ธ‰์ฆํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฐ€์šด๋ฐ, ๋‹ค์นด์ด์น˜ ์‚ฌ๋‚˜์— ์ด๋ฆฌ ์ •๋ถ€๊ฐ€ ์•ฝ์†ํ•œ ๊ฐ์„ธ์™€ ๊ณต๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ๊ตญ๋ฐฉ ํˆฌ์ž ๋“ฑ ๊ณผ๊ฐํ•œ ๊ณต๊ณต ์ง€์ถœ์„ ์šฐ๋ คํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

The Nikkei 225, the benchmark index of the Tokyo stock market, rose 1.4% shortly after the Bank of Japan's decision was announced, showing an upward trend.

๋„์ฟ„ ์ฆ์‹œ์˜ ๋ฒค์น˜๋งˆํฌ ์ง€ํ‘œ์ธ ๋‹ˆ์ผ€์ด 225๋Š” ์ผ๋ณธ์€ํ–‰์˜ ๊ฒฐ์ •์ด ๋ฐœํ‘œ๋œ ์งํ›„ ์ƒ์Šน์„ธ๋ฅผ ๋‚˜ํƒ€๋‚ด๋ฉฐ 1.4% ์ƒ์Šนํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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