Nikkei reports: TOKYO -- The Japanese government plans to appoint Kazuo Ueda, an economist and former member of the BOJ Policy Board, as the central bank's next governor after Haruhiko Kuroda steps down, Nikkei has learned. Ueda, an academic economist with an Economics Ph.D. from MIT, will be the first academic to helm the Bank of Japan during the postwar era, departing from the unwritten rule that has dictated that the leadership of the bank should pass between career BOJ officials and career MOF officials.
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