Bloomberg with the headline 26 May

  • Hitoshi Suzuki and Goshi Katoaka confirmed by Lower House

The two were nominated in April to replace two dissenting members, Kiuchi and Sato, who were opposed to Kuroda's policies but whose terms were up in July anyway so not a coup as such.

Katoaka is regarded as a reflationist. Suzuki brings experience from the commercial banking/financial markets sector. .

Kuroda's policies have been generally passed by 7-2 for over a year but the decision in 2016 to introduce negative interest rates scraped in by 5-4.

Kuroda's own term as governor ends in April but is widely tipped to be re-appointed given his close relationship with PM Abe, while 2 dep govs are due to step down in March.

Meanwhile USDJPY 111.54 tightly bound still.

Kuroda and Abe sitting in a tree. K.I.S.S.I.N.G