25 Quotes by Haruhiko Kuroda

Since the size of Japan's economy is huge-it is three times bigger than China's-even a two to three per cent rate could provide enough growth momentum. I mean not only China, India but also Japan will be engine of growth, so to speak, for Asia and globally.

Minister Miyazawa told me that Japan's foreign exchange policy was unchanged, and that excessive weakness of the yen was undesirable for the Japanese economy as well as for the Asian and world economy,

Now that many of the East Asian countries have enough reserves, there is no need to massively increase the reserves from here for many countries.

I am quite sure that in 100 years there will be much fewer currencies and central banks in the world.

But as a matured economy, like the US or European nations, the Japanese economy cannot grow by five or six per cent.

We must intensify our efforts to build rails, roads and other cross-border infrastructure and coordinate the associated laws, rules and regulations. Financing will be a major challenge.

I think the Japanese economy has recovered and it can continue to grow by two to three percent (annually) in the next several years, although such growth is not so big compared with China or India.

Our foreign exchange policy remains unchanged. Beyond that, I will not comment.

Our regions accomplishments in reducing income poverty are now well recognized, but an immense task lies ahead of us,