The Nikkei carries a long article on the lunch date yesterday between PM Abe and Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Kuroda:

  • Carefully choreographed
  • Was the third lunch meeting between Abe and Kuroda

Says the Nikkei:

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe thought a 50-minute lunch meeting with Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda would stoke enough excitement to jolt the stock market out of its torpor

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3 lunch dates … surely dinner must be next? Then back to Abe’s place to ‘watch a DVD’.