By Satoshi Sugiyama

TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan will raise its key interest rate by at least 25 basis points again later this year, according to nearly two-thirds of economists in a Reuters poll, up from just over half a month ago.

While news of recent weakness in the U.S. job market has renewed bets for a Federal Reserve interest rate cut next month, 70% of analysts in the poll said that alone won’t delay the Japanese central bank’s push for slightly tighter monetary conditions.

Although the BOJ has been under pressure to raise rates after more than three years of consumer inflation exceeding its 2% target, it has been wary of doing so, partly due to concerns about U.S. tariffs damaging economic growth.

In the August 12-19 poll, a 92% majority of economists, 67 of 73, forecast

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