Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is expected to let top officials of the Liberal Democratic Party know early this week of his choice for the next Bank of Japan governor.
“I hope it will be early next week,” Hidenao Nakagawa, chairman of the LDP’s Diet Affairs Committee, told a gathering in Osaka late Friday.
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