The Bank of Japan raised its growth estimate and maintained its hawkish inflation forecasts on Friday even as it kept interest rates steady, signalling its confidence a moderate recovery would justify raising still-low borrowing costs further. At a two-day meeting that ended on Friday, the BOJ maintained its key policy rate at 0.75 per cent in a widely expected decision after having just hiked the rate from 0.5 per cent in December. Following are excerpts from BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda's comments at his post-meeting news conference, which was conducted in Japanese, as translated by Reuters: "Not much time has ... (full story)