{"id":356326,"date":"2026-02-25T23:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/356326\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T23:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:44:12","slug":"japan-picks-reflationists-for-boj-board-echoing-takaichis-policy-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/356326\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan picks reflationists for BOJ board, echoing Takaichi&#8217;s policy view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\/bank-of-japan\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bank of Japan<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">While central bank tightens monetary policy, prime minister hopes to keep rates low<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"20260225N Asada Sato BOJ\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Toichiro Asada, professor emeritus at Chuo University, left, and Ayano Sato, a professor at Aoyama Gakuin University, have been nominated to the Bank of Japan&#8217;s policy board. (Source photos by Kyodo and Takasaki City University of Economics)<\/p>\n<p>JUNTARO ARAI and RYUTO IMAO<\/p>\n<p>February 26, 2026 02:20 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; The Japanese government on Wednesday nominated two academics who have advocated monetary easing and fiscal stimulus to the Bank of Japan&#8217;s policy board, reflecting Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi&#8217;s preference for low interest rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bank of Japan While central bank tightens monetary policy, prime minister hopes to keep rates low Toichiro Asada,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[174],"tags":[31986,14428,79,166657,179,18,19,17,386,26041,12318,166656,119480,12160],"class_list":["post-356326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-board","tag-boj","tag-business","tag-echoing","tag-economy","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-japan","tag-picks","tag-policy","tag-reflationists","tag-takaichis","tag-view"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116133931707482898","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}