TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Saturday that he highly approves of Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda and that he would like to see a continuation of easing policies, Nikkei business daily reported.
The comments by Suga, a frontrunner to succeed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in a leadership race later this month, were made in an interview with Nikkei, the newspaper’s online site said on Saturday.
(Reporting by Yuka Obayashi; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)
