'Prime Minister Kuroda' has quite a challenge on his hands

Japan's next leader should wrest control back from the Bank of Japan

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Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda attends a news conference in January 2020: an even bigger role could end badly. © Reuters

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

It is that time again, when Japanese politicians jockey for the premiership. Yet we already know who will lead the nation into a wildly uncertain 2022: Haruhiko Kuroda.

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