Japan Post-Quake Rebound Wanes as Spending Nears Stall

``"The government and the BOJ can do something to mitigate the pressure on the economy, but I don't think fiscal policy is really working apart from reconstruction spending," said Hiromichi Shirakawa, chief Japan economist at Credit Suisse Group AG and a former central bank official. "There is more pressure on the Bank of Japan than the government to do something."''