Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said.....>

BOJ: Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said Thursday that BOJ policymakers

do not have any rigid time limit in mind in their efforts to guide low inflation

to a stable 2% "at the earliest possible time" by persistently continuing

large-scale monetary easing.

- He also told a seminar that the current positive growth cycle -- in which

higher corporate profits will create more jobs, push up wages and led to higher

inflation -- must be maintained to turn around the deflationary mindset among

firms and households that is "more deeply entrenched than expected."

- "The bank has been conducting monetary policy while examining whether the

momentum toward 2% inflation is being maintained, taking into account

developments in economic activity and prices as well as financial conditions,"

Kuroda said. (MNI - For Full Story See MAin Wire At 05:13 BST 05/10)