After years of dissent, new BOJ head leads regime change

Haruhiko Kuroda had reason to be frustrated when he retired as Japan’s currency czar a decade ago.

The man now plucked to run the Bank of Japan and revive the long stagnant economy was a career Ministry of Finance bureaucrat at the time exasperated that the central bank had - as he saw it - shirked its duty to end what was then already six years of deflation. Much bolder action was needed, he argued.

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