BOJ's Kuroda defends upbeat economic view despite soft data
August 01, 2014 at 00:55 AM EDT
TOKYO (Reuters) - Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda came out fighting on Friday, giving a spirited defense of the economy's performance after a run of weak data, and reiterated his readiness to expand stimulus if inflation faltered on the path to his 2 percent target rate.
