"If we fail in our pursuit of stable price growth, we could be forced to raise rates rapidly," governor Kazuo Ueda said after the bank left its target policy rate at 1%.

TOKYO, July 31 : The Bank of Japan kept interest rates steady on Friday but signaled its resolve to continue pushing up borrowing costs, in the wake of the government's yen-buying…

TOKYO, July 31 : The Bank of Japan is set to keep interest rates steady on Friday but signal its resolve to continue pushing up borrowing costs, as mounting price pressures from…