TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s upper house of parliament is set to conduct confirmation hearings on government nominees for the new central bank governor and his two deputies on Feb. 27, sources told Reuters on Monday.
The government is expected to formally nominate academic Kazuo Ueda as new Bank of Japan governor, along with the two deputies at both houses of parliament on Tuesday.
(Reporting by Yoshfumi Takemoto and Tetsushi Kajimoto; Editing by Chang-Ran Kim)