Japan's next prime minister will have to appoint a replacement for BOJ Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda, who since the spring of 2013 has been running an aggressive yen-printing operation as he seeks to raise the country's stubbornly flat inflation rate to 2%.
His term is coming to an end in April 2023, and who will be Kuroda's replacement is a question that had vexed Yoshihide Suga ever since he became prime minister one year ago.
