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The veteran financial diplomat nominated to become the next governor of Japan's central bank says that achieving the government's 2-percent inflation target as soon as possible ...

Japan's central bank governor says he is resigning three weeks before his five-year term expires on April 8 so his departure will coincide with those of his top deputies.

BEIJING--China appointed a new governor for remote and restive Tibet on Jan. 29, naming a hardline ethnic Tibetan in a signal that the government has no plans to ease up on its ...

Just 10 minutes and change past the closing of polls at 8 p.m. on March 25, Ikuo Kabashima secured his second term as governor of Kumamoto Prefecture amid shouts of "banzai!"

Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa wants the government to get serious about getting its fiscal house in order and do something about the snowballing public debt.

Yasushi Mieno, the Bank of Japan governor who was praised for taming the asset-inflated “bubble” economy but later criticized for causing a prolonged recession, died in...

What if someone asked you for advice and then ignored it? And what if that person then pretended that they had listened to your advice?

An independent investigative committee recently highlighted a shady relationship between Kyushu Electric Power Co. and Saga Gov. Yasushi Furukawa, calling it a key factor in a...

Short of funds and wielding no influence, a 12-year-old girl still managed to get prefectural governors across Japan to join hands in support of victims of the March 11 Great...

Television is awash with dirty tricks. Let me cite a few recent examples. A person presented on television as a customer of a thriving pet business was in fact an employee of...

Prefectural governors who hold the keys to restarting Japan's idle nuclear reactors did not appear to be convinced by the government's June 18 statement declaring nuclear power ...