Japan government nominates reflationist-minded economist to join BOJ board
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government on Tuesday nominated Seiji Adachi, an economist known as a proponent of aggressive monetary easing, to join the Bank of Japan's nine-member board.The nomination is likely to reinforce market expectations the central bank will maintain its massive stimulus programme to reflate the economy and fire up inflation to its elusive 2% target.Adachi, 54, an economist at Japan's Marusan Securities, would replace Yutaka Harada, a similarly minded board member whose term..