The man they call 'Mr BOJ' shaping policy behind the scenes
Now head of monetary affairs department, he may be a contender for the top jobs at the bank in 2018
Tokyo
MASAYOSHI Amamiya is viewed as so essential to operations at the Bank of Japan (BOJ) that he's known inside the central bank as "Mr BOJ".
With the shift in recent months from a blitz on deflation to a long-haul campaign that's set to outlast governor Haruhiko Kuroda's term, Mr Amamiya is at the fore of managing interest rates and nudging consumer prices towards the BOJ's distant 2 per cent inflation goal.
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