Other candidates for the governor job include Hiroshi Watanabe, chief executive of the Japan Bank for International Co-operation, and professors Kikuo Iwata and Takatoshi Ito.
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Even Takatoshi Ito, an economist at Tokyo University and long a critic of the bank, says that Mr Fukui is at last sending the right message.
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Takatoshi Ito of Tokyo University, until recently a government adviser, thinks the bank should be doing much more, including making a clear commitment to targeting a positive rate of inflation.