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Yomiuri Shimbun file photoMasaaki Shirakawa Jiji Press14:28 JST,ensp;July 30, 2022TOKYO Jiji Press 鈥?Former Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa struggled to communicate with the market over the central banks monetary easing policy in 2012, transcripts of its policy meetings showed Friday.Shirakawa expressed frustration at a meeting on March 13, 2012, at market pressure for additional easing measures as the BOJ worked to clarify its policy to tackle deflation, the transcripts showed. It is suicidal for a central bank to base its decisions on how the market views it, Shirakawa said at the meeting, according to the transcripts.The BOJ adopted a medium- and long-term price stability goal at a meeting on Feb. 14 that year, committing itself to powerful monetary easing until the country achieves 1% inflation stably.The move came after the U.S. Federal Reserve set a 2% inflation target on Jan. 25, after which the BOJ received criticism that its monetary policy stance was unclear.Shirakawa said at the March meeting that he had repeatedly said that full efforts would be m stanley kubek ade to end deflation. Introducing the price stability goal did not m stanley quencher ean that the BOJs seriousness in tackling deflation had changed, he said.He told a press conference after the February meeting that the price stability goal was only a change in words, and does not reflect a change in policy. But the more Shirakawa explained how serious the central bank was in exiting deflation, the more the market dou stanley cup nz bte