May 17, 2007
Bank of Japan
At the Monetary Policy Meeting held today, the Bank of Japan decided, by a unanimous vote,[Note] to set the following guideline for money market operations for the intermeeting period:
The Bank of Japan will encourage the uncollateralized overnight
call rate to remain at around 0.5 percent.
[Note] Voting for the action: Mr. T. Fukui, Mr. T. Muto, Mr. K. Iwata, Ms. M. Suda, Mr. A.
Mizuno, Mr. K. G. Nishimura, Mr. T. Noda, Mr. S. Nakamura, and Mr. H. Kamezaki.
Voting against the action: None.
(Reference)
Meeting hours:
May 16: 14:00-16:30
May 17: 9:00-12:37
Policy Board members present:
Toshihiko Fukui (Governor)
Toshiro Muto (Deputy Governor)
Kazumasa Iwata (Deputy Governor)
Miyako Suda
Atsushi Mizuno
Kiyohiko G. Nishimura
Tadao Noda
Seiji Nakamura
Hidetoshi Kamezaki
(Others present)
May 16
From the Ministry of Finance:
Eijiro Katsu, Deputy Vice Minister for Policy Planning and Co-ordination
(14:00-16:30)
From the Cabinet Office:
Jun Hamano, Vice-Minister for Policy Coordination (14:00-16:30)
May 17
From the Ministry of Finance:
Kazunori Tanaka, Senior Vice Minister of Finance
(9:04-12:26,12:28-12:37)
From the Cabinet Office:
Jun Hamano, Vice-Minister for Policy Coordination(9:00-12:26,12:28-12:37)
Release of the Monthly Report of Recent Economic and Financial Developments:
(Consisting of "The Bank's View" and "The Background")
"The Bank's View"
3:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 17
Full text (Consisting of "The Bank's View" and "The Background")
2:00 p.m. on Friday, May 18 (Japanese)
4:30 p.m. on Monday, May 21 (English)
Release of the minutes:
2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 20












