The Bank of Japan (BoJ) released its new schedule of monetary policy meetings for the next year on Friday. The central bank will reduce the number of meetings to 8 from the current 14. The first monetary policy meeting in 2016 is scheduled to be on January 28-29.
BoJ's economic and inflation forecasts are scheduled to be released four times next year: on January 29, April 28, July 29 and November 01.