BOJ cautious about reintroducing quantitative easing policy

TOKYO, Japan - Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa delivers a lecture at the University of Tokyo in the capital's Bunkyo Ward on Nov. 26. Shirakawa warned against easing credit conditions unnecessarily, while saying that the central bank continues to study both the ''merits and adverse effects'' of its earlier quantitative easing policy.

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