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Japan's Central Bank Chief Deserves a Second Term
Kuroda's bold ideas put some life into a moribund economy. That's more than his predecessors could claim.
He's done a lot.
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Donald Trump isn't the only leader with a big economic hire to make.
His Mar-a-Lago golf partner, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has to decide whether to reappoint Haruhiko Kuroda as governor of the Bank of Japan. Kuroda's term expires next April, two months after Janet Yellen's at the U.S. Federal Reserve.