Newcomer Junko Koeda, a 49-year-old academic known as a fiscal and monetary hawk, is likely to reinforce the shift towards higher interest rates and bring fresh thinking into a central bank long ...

Also on Wednesday, the Bank of Japan’s policy board will welcome a new member. University professor Junko Koeda will replace dovish board member Seiji Adachi, whose term expires on Tuesday.

Since the BOJ’s research institute released Junko Koeda’s study of negative rates earlier this month, speculation has intensified that the central bank is deliberately feeding debate over its ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan's government on Tuesday nominated Junko Koeda, an academic who had warned of the cost of prolonged monetary easing, to join the Bank of Japan board in March, a choice ...

"Various data point to the direction that underlying inflation is moving toward" the bank's goal of sustainable 2% inflation, Junko Koeda said at her inaugural news conference on Wednesday.