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BoJ to slow bond purchases, but not due to US

US insistence that provisions against currency manipulation be a part of any future trade deal with Japan has raised suggestions this week that Japanese policymakers, particularly those at the Bank of Japan, could find their hands tied in future. We disagree.

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