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Uedanomics, or Japan Turns to a Mystery Sensei
The world may not know the man set to take over the Bank of Japan, but the country’s top financial technocrats do. He’s taught many of them.
Kazuo Ueda has the personal authority to bridge central bank-finance ministry rivalries.
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One thing we learned from last week: It matters who runs the Bank of Japan. But we still need to know how, if at all, the new governor will change what has been the most consistent monetary policy on the planet.