BOJ Chief

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda meets Japan’s newly empowered Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Monday in their first bilateral session since she led the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to a historic parliamentary supermajority, a meeting the two sides described as a routine exchange but which markets are closely watching for signals on the pace of future interest rate increases.

The session, scheduled for 5:00 p.m. at the prime minister’s office in Tokyo, is the second time Ueda and Takaichi have met since she became premier in October and the first since the LDP’s landslide election victory on February 8. …