Haruhiko Kuroda
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"Haruhiko Kuroda"/?????/Kuroda Haruhiko/extra=born 25 October 1944}}, is 31st and current Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ). He was formerly the President of the Asian Development Bank from 1 February 2005 to 18 March 2013.

Kuroda has been an advocate of looser monetary policy in Japan.{{cite news

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Our foreign exchange policy remains unchanged. Beyond that, I will not comment.

We now have an explosion of new trade and investment incentives - currently 15 under implementation, close to 10 signed, more than 20 under negotiation and at least 16 more proposed.

This is clearly the worst natural disaster in Pakistan's recent history. The images of ordinary citizens pulling friends and neighbors from the rubble will remain indelibly etched in our minds.

We will always take appropriate steps against an excessively strong yen.

These economies may be delaying a necessary adjustment to high oil prices.

As I have always said, it is desirable for dollar-yen rates to trade in a stable manner.

Our region's accomplishments in reducing income poverty are now well recognized, but an immense task lies ahead of us.

Minister Miyazawa told me that Japan's foreign exchange policy was unchanged, and that excessive weakness of the yen was undesirable for the Japanese economy as well as for the Asian and world economy.

The scale of the catastrophe is stunning.