Amid fresh market unrest, BOJ says it's set to ease further

Tokyo

IN what has been seen as a move to brace Japan against impending market shocks from China or elsewhere, the country's central bank governor Haruhiko Kuroda declared on Monday that the Bank of Japan (BOJ) would "do whatever it takes" to prevent a return of deflation - and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pledged his government's support for this strategy.

Their comments came as China's stock market suffered a circuit breaker-triggering 7 per cent drop in prices, whi…