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BOJ starts operating under new regime without chief

The Bank of Japan began operating under a new regime Friday with two new deputy governors but no chief due to political wrangling between the ruling and opposition parties. Masaaki Shirakawa, an executive director of the central bank between 2002 and... ...full story at Japan Today

from Japan Today on Fri, Mar 21 2008

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