BOJ wants to maintain accommodative monetary environment, says senior central bank official

TOKYO (Reuters) – A senior Bank of Japan official said the central bank wants to maintain an accommodative monetary environment as much as possible, Jiji news agency reported on Thursday.

The central bank’s next policy meeting will be a “very important” one, Kazushige Kamiyama, the BOJ’s Osaka branch manager, was quoted as saying by Jiji.

(Reporting by Leika Kihara; Editing by Kim Coghill)