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China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan could all have new central bank chiefs within months. The newcomers, or the incumbents if they stay, all face important policy challenges.

Dragging Japan out of its deflation mindset is proving tough, despite the tumbling yen and Bank of Japan’s determined programme of quantitative easing.

Yu-Ming Wang, chief investment officer at the $160 billion Nikko Asset Management, tells Jame DiBiasio why the West has China wrong — and Japan too.

Japan accused by senior Chinese banker of using quantitative easing to avoid dealing with the true sources of deflation.

Reports that the current head of the ADB will be appointed as Japan’s new central bank chief cheered investors yesterday.

There are few surprises in the central bank’s latest monetary gambit, but a faint hope that the BoJ and the government are moving towards concerted action.

Not likely, according to respondents to our web poll last week, but it is nevertheless hard to be optimistic about Japan’s outlook.

Despite its direct intervention in currency markets and a ¥10 trillion extension of its monetary stimulus, Japan has little hope of reversing yen appreciation.

Last night in Hong Kong, Charles Evans of the Federal Reserve and colleagues from the Bank of England and Bank of Japan discussed the challenges central bankers face as pressure builds for them to preempt the next financial crisis.