In charts: the challenges for Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda

Since taking over as the Bank of Japan’s governor this month, Kazuo Ueda has carefully signalled policy continuity, but few investors are taking his words at face value.

With the first change in BoJ governorship in a decade, a break in bank tradition with an academic at the helm and Japan’s inflation at a multi-decade high, the stage is set for change.