Japan's Suga says would like to see continuation of easing policies: Nikkei - Reuters

Reuters | Sept. 5, 2020, 2:04 a.m. | Original
FILE PHOTO: Yoshihide Suga, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary and ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lawmaker, speaks during a news conference to announce his candidacy for the party's leadership election, in Tokyo, Japan September 2, 2020. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Saturday that he highly approves of Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda and that he would like to see a continuation of easing policies, Nikkei business daily reported.

The comments by Suga, a frontrunner to succeed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in a leadership race later this month, were made in an interview with Nikkei, the newspaper’s online site said on Saturday.

Reporting by Yuka Obayashi; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore

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