Under siege, Japan central bank wakes up to political reality

Within a day of Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party sweeping to power in elections this month, elite bureaucrats in Japan’s central bank rushed to ready what amounted to a surrender offer. Abe had run his campaign with a relentless focus on economic policy and had called on the Bank of Japan (…

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Under siege, Japan central bank wakes up to political reality