The government on Feb. 14 presented Kazuo Ueda to parliament as its nominee for the next Bank of Japan governor, putting the academic and former member of the central bank's decision-making body forward to replace Haruhiko Kuroda in its first leadership change in a decade.
Ueda would replace current central bank chief Governor Haruhiko Kuroda, who was first appointed in March 2013. His current five-year term will end on April 8.