The upper house also voted to approve the appointment of Kikuo Iwata and Hiroshi Nakaso as deputies to Mr Kuroda, who is leaving his current job as president of the Asian Development Bank.

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Japanese political parties (Your Party, the Japan Restoration Party, and the New Renaissance Party) are scheduled to announce their intentions today on the confirmation votes for Kuroda to become BoJ governor and for Hiroshi Nakaso and Kikuo Iwata to be named deputy chiefs.

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Other candidates for the governor job include Hiroshi Watanabe, chief executive of the Japan Bank for International Co-operation, and professors Kikuo Iwata and Takatoshi Ito.

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