The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.----------BOJ steps up policy normalization, to sell assets amassed under easingTOKYO - Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda on Friday stressed the central bank's commitment to continue raising interest rates, as it stepped up its monetary normalization efforts by deciding to sell assets that have built up over a decade of unorthodox easing.As widely expected, the BOJ left its benchmark interest rate at around 0.5 percent for the fifth straight policy meeting after raising it to that level in January, as it continued to …READ FULL ARTICLE
