Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Masaaki Kanno, chief economist at J.P. Morgan Securities Asia Ltd., talks with Bloomberg's Gene Otani in Tokyo about the Bank of Japan's decision today to keep interest rates almost zero, the effectiveness of its monetary policy and the outlook for the Japanese economy.

00:58 BOJ's decision to keep rates unchanged, G-7 meeting
00:51 Kanno discusses the effectiveness of BOJ's monetary policy.
00:37 Outlook for the Japanese central bank's yen selling
00:59 Japan's economy, deflation, yen and growth outlook

Running time 3:25.

Last Updated: February 5, 2004 01:22 EST