The Bank of Japan left its ultraeasy monetary policy unchanged Tuesday as the country's inflation rate has remained far below its 2 percent target.

The central bank upgraded its economic growth outlook for fiscal 2020 starting in April to 0.9 percent from 0.7 percent projected in October, following the government's fiscal stimulus package to ease negative impact from the consumption tax hike last October.

==Kyodo

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