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March 6, 2013

Japan's Policy Shift Needs Anchor to Normality

Martin Wolf, Financial Times

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Shinzo Abe, Japan's prime minister, continues to astonish. He could hardly have chosen a more radical team than the one he has appointed to run the Bank of Japan. Haruhiko Kuroda, a critic of the BoJ’s past passivity, is now in charge of monetary policy.

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