Haruhiko Kuroda Quotations

I think the Japanese economy has recovered and it can continue to grow by two to three percent (annually) in the next several years, although such growth is not so big compared with China or India.

We now have an explosion of new trade and investment incentives - currently 15 under implementation, close to 10 signed, more than 20 under negotiation and at least 16 more proposed.

Since the size of Japan's economy is huge-it is three times bigger than China's-even a two to three per cent rate could provide enough growth momentum. I mean not only China, India but also Japan will be engine of growth, so to speak, for Asia and globally.

It's desirable that foreign exchange rates reflect fundamentals,

I am quite sure that in 100 years there will be much fewer currencies and central banks in the world.

We have to be very careful because people are suffering.

Before we can realistically envisage any single currency, we have to have a single market as the European experience shows.

Our regions accomplishments in reducing income poverty are now well recognized, but an immense task lies ahead of us,

For a Thai company this administrative cost could be huge.

Minister Miyazawa told me that Japan's foreign exchange policy was unchanged, and that excessive weakness of the yen was undesirable for the Japanese economy as well as for the Asian and world economy,