Bank Lending Rate in Japan remained unchanged at 2.05 percent in May. Bank Lending Rate in Japan averaged 4.61 percent from 1966 until 2025, reaching an all time high of 9.90 percent in October of 1974 and a record low of 0.90 percent in August of 2016. source: Bank of Japan
Bank Lending Rate in Japan is expected to be 2.30 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. In the long-term, the Japan Long Term Prime Rate is projected to trend around 2.55 percent in 2026, according to our econometric models.