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Haruhiko Kuroda

Haruhiko Kuroda (黒田 東彦, Kuroda Haruhiko, born 25 October 1944) is a Japanese banker and a former Ministry of Finance government official who served as the 31st Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) from March 2013 to April 2023 and is currently a Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS). From 2003 Mr Kuroda served as Special Advisor to the Cabinet of Prime Minister Koizumi, while teaching economics and finance as a Professor at the Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Economics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Haruhiko Kuroda has received more than 261,935 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Haruhiko Kuroda is the 265th most popular economist (up from 267th in 2019), the 1,076th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,061st in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Economist.

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    Pursuing the national interest: Haruhiko Kuroda (1)

    Haruhiko Kuroda completed his 10-year term as governor of the Bank of Japan in April 2023.

    After graduating from the University of Tokyo, Kuroda joined the Ministry of Finance in 1967. While he was studying in the U.K., his letters to The Economist magazine attracted the attention of renowned economist Roy Harrod.

    While working in international finance and taxation, Kuroda faced the "Nixon Shock," the oil crisis and the bursting of Japan's "bubble economy." After serving as vice minister of finance for international affairs, and later as the president of the Asian Development Bank, he was approached by then-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2013 to become governor of the Bank of Japan, which he accepted as his calling to help end deflation. His bold monetary easing lifted the sense of stagnation that had weighed on the country.

    This English translation is the first of a 29-part series and the latest installment of Nikkei's "My Personal History" ("Watashi no Rirekisho"). The

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    Haruhiko Kuroda

    Japanese central banker

    Haruhiko Kuroda (黒田 東彦, Kuroda Haruhiko, born 25 October 1944) is a Japanese banker and a former Ministry of Finance government official who served as the 31st Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) from March 2013 to April 2023 [1] and is currently a Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS).[2] From 2003 Mr Kuroda served as Special Advisor to the Cabinet of Prime Minister Koizumi, while teaching economics and finance as a Professor at the Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Economics.[3] He was formerly the President of the Asian Development Bank from 1 February 2005 to 18 March 2013.[4][5]

    Early life and education

    Kuroda was born in 1944, in Ōmuta, Fukuoka Prefecture, the eldest son of his family. His father was a Japan Coast Guard officer. As a child he lived in Yokohama and Kobe before settling in Setagaya, Tokyo.[6]

    He was matriculated at the University of Tokyo in 1963. Interested in the works of Karl Popper and Marx, he ch

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