Economic calendar in Asia Friday, March 21, 2025: Japan inflation data for February.

Earlier this week the Bank of Japan left monetary policy unchanged:

• ForexLive Asia-Pacific FX news wrap: BoJ holds rates steady, markets eye Ueda & Fed ahead

The next meeting is April 30/May 1. By then we will have had the February (see below) and March CPI data. February CPI data is expected to have slipped back a little from January. While not shown below, expectations I have seen for the headline result centre on 3.5%, down from January’s 4.0%. Note that all three measures were higher than the BoJ 2% target in January.

• This snapshot from the ForexLive economic data calendar, access it here.
• The times in the left-most column are GMT.
• The numbers in the right-most column are the ‘prior’ (previous month/quarter as the case may be) result. The number in the column next to that, where there is a number, is the consensus median expected.

This article was written by Eamonn Sheridan at www.forexlive.com.