Masazumi Wakatabe is a professor at Waseda University

  • a vocal advocate of aggressive monetary easing,a nd has also called for more fiscal spending

and Masayoshi Amamiya

  • veteran central banker
  • has spent his entire career at the BOJ

The two new deputy governors will hold a news conference from 5.30pm Tokyo time

  • that is 0830 GMT

The two noobs replace Kikuo Iwata and Hiroshi Nakaso

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ps. Japan is to sell an extra 550 bn yen in debt today ... enhanced liquidity auction

  • 40 year maturity JGBs