TOKYO -- An unusually pointed comment about the Bank of Japan's policy plans by a senior Finance Ministry official underlines Tokyo's concerns as the central bank enters a transitional period.
Senior vice finance minister Kozo Akino, who attends BOJ policy board meetings in that capacity, was asked in a March 9 meeting of the upper house parliamentary Committee on Financial Affairs how long the bank's massive monetary easing program would continue.
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