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The Bank of Japan (BoJ) raised its key short-term interest rate to around 0% to 0.1% from -0.1% in March 2024, matching market expectations and halting its eight years of negative interest rates. It is the first interest rate hike since 2007, as inflation had exceeded the central bank's 2% target in over a year while the largest companies in the country had agreed to raise salaries by 5.28%, the biggest wage hike in over three decades. However, two of the BoJ’s nine board members, Toyoaki Nakamura and Asahi Noguchi, dissented. The central bank also terminated yield curve control for 10-year government bonds and discontinued the purchases of ETF and Japan real estate investment trusts (J-REITs). Further, the BoJ will slowly reduce the pace of corporate bond buying before fully stopping it in about a year. Still, the bank added that in case of a rapid rise in long-term rates, it would make nimble responses, such as increasing the amount of JGB purchases.