２５年度後半に１％まで利上げ　田村日銀審議委員

　日銀の田村直樹審議委員は６日、長野県松本市で講演し、利上げの到達点について「２０２５年度後半には少なくとも１％程度まで短期金利を引き上げておくことが必要だ」と述べた。政策金利を現在の０．５％から０．７５％に引き上げても「経済を引き締める水準にはまだ距離がある」とし、複数回の利上げに前向きな姿勢を示した。（2025/02/06-12:40）

The Bank of Japan needs to raise its policy interest rate to around 1 pct during fiscal 2025 through March 2026, BOJ policymaker Naoki Tamura said Thursday.
   "My sense is that (Japan's) neutral interest rate would be at least around 1 pct," Tamura said in a speech in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, central Japan.
   "I think it is necessary for the bank to raise the short-term interest rate to at least that level by the second half of fiscal 2025," he continued.
   Even if the BOJ raises the policy rate to 0.75 pct from the current 0.5 pct, "there would still be a long way to go before reaching a level that would put downward pressure on economic activities," he also said.
   Tamura's remarks prompted investors to buy yen against dollars on speculation that the interest rate gap between Japan and the United States will narrow, pushing the U.S. currency below 152 yen for the first time in about two months briefly.