Comment: Fukui comes out fighting

The governor of the Bank of Japan came out fighting on Tuesday 20 June in response to a public outcry due to a dubious personal investment. Fukui reiterated that he would not bow down to opposition politicians' calls for his head, and squashed rumours that the affair would affect the central bank's thinking on interest rate changes.

COMMENT BY CENTRALBANKNEWS

Fukui is under fire for his Y10 million ($87, 000) investment in a fund set up by Yoshiaki Murakami, who was arrested this month on insider

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