Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said the bank has various monetary policy options available in order to achieve 2 percent inflation in a stable manner.
Speaking in Parliament on Friday, Kuroda said the massive bond purchase programme is not causing any problem in the government bond market.
The BoJ earlier this week maintained its monetary easing programme unchanged. The bank expanded its quantitative and qualitative easing in October to raise the monetary base at an annual pace of about JPY 80 trillion.
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