A top economic adviser to Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi harshly criticized the Bank of Japan’s decision Wednesday not to ease its monetary policy, a matter he said Obuchi took “very seriously.”
Ichizo Ohara, a veteran lawmaker of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, said the BOJ’s monetary policy should complement the government’s fiscal policy to prop up the economy.
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