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Bank of Japan straying into industrial policy

The Bank of Japan’s proposed one-year loan scheme is designed to support the government’s longerterm industrial policy rather than to ease monetary conditions more generally. As such the immediate impact should be limited. Nonetheless, this step could reinforce the widespread perception that the Bank is too ready to respond to political pressure.

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