MoF’s Sumi announces plans for 40-year JGBOVERSEAS DEBT INVESTOR relations efforts are still new and rather strange for Japan’s key financial policy makers. Hiroshi Watanabe is perhaps not a natural bond salesman. He smiles as he recalls pitching the Japanese recovery to fund managers in New York last year. "One member of the audience came up to me after my speech and said: ‘I totally agree with what you’re saying about the economy.’ I asked him what he was going to do. ‘I’m going to buy Japanese stocks.’" ...
