Politics Ensnares the Bank of Japan

Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo
With world stock markets volatile and the US economy teetering toward recession because of the sub-prime crisis, one of the many consequences of Japan’s divided Diet is that partisan politics has for the first time entered into the selection of a new Governor of the Bank of Japan.
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