Trump has made the BOJ's job so much harder

Kazuo Ueda's rate plans are collateral damage in Washington's trade offensive

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U.S. President Donald Trump and Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda (Nikkei montage/Source photos by Reuters, Yutaka Miyaguchi, and Nanami Sato).

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

As Donald Trump threatens to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, the U.S. president is also upending monetary policy decisions in far-off Tokyo.

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