Haruhiko Kuroda: Toward overcoming deflation Speech by Mr Haruhiko Kuroda, Governor of the Bank of Japan, at the Annual Tokyo Conference, hosted by the Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB), Columbia Business School, Tokyo, 15 May 2014. *  *  *  Accompanying charts can be found at the end of the speech.
Introduction It is my great honor to deliver a speech at this conference hosted by the Center on Japanese Economy and Business of Columbia Business School. The topic of this conference – “Restoring the Japanese Economy” – is of considerable significance and I have no doubt that the proposals presented here will be of benefit to Japan’s economy in the future.