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At the Monetary Policy Meeting held today, the Policy Board of the Bank ofJapan decided, by a 7-2 majority vote, to set the following guideline for money market operations for the intermeeting period: The Bank will encourage the uncollateralized overnight call rate to remain at around 0.5 percent. Voting for the action: UEDA Kazuo, HIMINO Ryozo, UCHIDA Shinichi, NOGUCHI Asahi, NAKAGAWA Junko, KOEDA Junko, and MASU Kazuyuki. Voting against the action: TAКАТА Hajime and TAMURA Naoki. Takata Hajime considered that there had been a shift away from the deflationary norm and the price stability target had been more or less achieved. Tamura Naoki considered that, with risks to prices becoming more skewed to the upside, the Bank should set the policy interest rate a little closer to the neutral rate. They proposed that the Bank set the guideline for money market operations as follows: the Bank would encourage the uncollateralized overnight call rate to remain at around 0.75 percent. The proposals were defeated by majority votes. BOJ BOARD MEMBERS TAKATA, TAMURA DISSENTED TO DECISION ON RATES BOJ BOARD MEMBERS TAKATA, TAMURA PROPOSED RAISING SHORT-TERM INTEREST RATE TARGET TO 0.75% FROM 0.50% PROPOSALS BY TAKATA, TAMURA TURNED DOWN BY MAJORITY VOTE BOJ'S TAKATA CONSIDERED THERE HAD BEEN A SHIFT AWAY…

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