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Bank of Japan going green is an economic game changer

Shift will help spark the renewable energy revolution Tokyo needs

| Japan
The BOJ headquarters, pictured in November 2019: the central bank could mull the mechanics of green-centric quantitative easing.   © Getty Images

William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."

The Bank of Japan is turning heads as it joins peers in adding melting glaciers and environmental wokeness to the list of reasons to cut interest rates.

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