Coming under intense political pressure, the Bank of Japan decided Friday to reduce the official discount rate by 0.15 percentage points to a record low 0.35 percent.
It is the first cut in the discount rate in more than five years.
The central bank also said it will continue to target its uncollateralized overnight call rate at 0.25 percent.
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