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href="/web/20150905214638/http://asia.nikkei.com/Features/BOJ-Watch/Japan-s-currency-printer-may-be-running-out-of-money">Japan's currency printer may be running out of money</a></h2> <p>TOKYO -- Japanese stocks have been wildly gyrating due to uncertainty over China's economy and as hedge funds have engaged in short-term trading. While the Bank of Japan is expected to buttress sagging stock prices by upping its purchases of exchange...</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="article-list "> <div class="article-box text-list"> <ul> <li> <div class="sub-title">Monetary policy</div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/web/20150905214638/http://asia.nikkei.com/Features/BOJ-Watch/China-worries-raise-doubts-about-Bank-of-Japan-s-inflation-target">China worries raise doubts about Bank of Japan's inflation target</a></h3> <p>TOKYO -- China's economic slowdown is taking wind out of the sails of exporters of commodities and manufactured products in Asia, pulling down the prices of crude oil and other commodities, as well as regional currencies. Weaker growth in Asia, i...</p> </li> <li> <div class="sub-title">BOJ Watch</div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/web/20150905214638/http://asia.nikkei.com/Features/BOJ-Watch/Consumption-fears-as-Japan-s-pensioners-cut-back-on-spending">Consumption fears as Japan's pensioners cut back on spending</a></h3> <p>TOKYO -- Alarmed by weak consumer spending, the Bank of Japan is calling for government action to prop up consumption among elderly, low-income pensioners. Preliminary data released by the Cabinet Office on Aug. 17 confirmed that Japan's economic...</p> </li> <li> <div class="sub-title">BOJ Watch</div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/web/20150905214638/http://asia.nikkei.com/Features/BOJ-Watch/Kuroda-has-been-going-soft-on-his-2-inflation-goal">Kuroda has been going soft on his 2% inflation goal</a></h3> <p>TOKYO -- When the Bank of Japan decided to pull even harder on its quantitative and qualitative easing lever last October, Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda said the bank's commitment to realizing its goal of 2% inflation is "unshakable," and that the bank would ...</p> </li> <li> <div class="sub-title">BOJ Watch</div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/web/20150905214638/http://asia.nikkei.com/Features/BOJ-Watch/Time-to-curtail-easing-may-be-soon-IMF-paper-says">Time to curtail easing may be soon, IMF paper says</a></h3> <p>TOKYO -- The Bank of Japan's aggressive monetary easing has chins wagging over the limitations and pitfalls of such a program, with questions being raised both abroad and within the bank itself. A working paper from the International Monetary Fun...</p> </li> <li> <div class="sub-title">BOJ Watch</div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/web/20150905214638/http://asia.nikkei.com/Features/BOJ-Watch/Inflation-and-a-talkative-central-bank">Inflation and a talkative central bank</a></h3> <p>TOKYO -- The Bank of Japan is making its communications more open -- probably on purpose -- at least when it comes to inflation. The bank is likely trying to convince people that prices are on a strong upswing, although it is also admitting that ...</p> </li> <li> <div class="sub-title">BOJ Watch</div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/web/20150905214638/http://asia.nikkei.com/Features/BOJ-Watch/Fear-China-not-Greece-Kuroda-says">Fear China, not Greece, Kuroda says</a></h3> <p>TOKYO -- Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda said he is more concerned about events in China than Greece's debt crisis. The central bank on Wednesday lowered its forecast for real economic growth for fiscal 2015 to 1.7% from an earlier projection ...</p> </li> <li> <div class="sub-title">BOJ Watch</div> <h3 class="title"><a href="/web/20150905214638/http://asia.nikkei.com/Features/BOJ-Watch/Did-business-sentiment-in-Japan-really-jump">Did business sentiment in Japan really jump?</a></h3> <p>TOKYO -- The Bank of Japan's latest Tankan quarterly survey, released Wednesday, might not accurately reflect where business sentiment in Japan really is. 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