Japan's upbeat wages may keep new BOJ chief on hook for policy tweak.

Japan's new central bank governor Kazuo Ueda says he is in no rush to shift away from the radical monetary stimulus of his predecessor, but wage pressures may force him to make the policy tweaks faster than he'd like.

Ueda, who commenced his new role at the bank this week, is widely expected by markets to take Japan out of the extremely accommodative monetary settings introduced by previous governor Haruhiko Kuroda in recent years - the only question is when he might do this.

While the extremely low interest rates and complicated policy framework of the...