TOKYO -- Some Bank of Japan board members aired clear discontent over "supplementary measures" to the bank's unconventional monetary policy of quantitative and qualitative easing, a summary of a meeting held on Dec. 17-18 shows.
The summary of the monetary policy meeting was released Friday in a new effort intended to smooth communications with the market. Under the program, each board member summarizes the opinions he or she presented at a meeting, then submits the outline to BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda. It is Kuroda's responsibility to then edit the opinions.
