TOKYO - The Bank of Japan decided Friday to make its controversial yield curve control program less rigid, allowing long-term yields to rise above its 0.5 percent ceiling, amid signs of entrenched inflation that could raise pressure on the central bank to further shift away from its ultralow interest rate policy.
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