Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has moved to reinforce the Bank of Japan’s fight against deflation by appointing a Toyota adviser to its policy board.

为加强日本央行(BoJ)对抗通缩的战斗，日本首相安倍晋三(Shinzo Abe)任命了一名丰田(Toyota)顾问进入日本央行政策委员会。

Yukitoshi Funo, who once headed Toyota’s US division, will join the nine-member BoJ policy board in July if his appointment is approved by parliament.

如果该任命获得国会批准，曾经的丰田美国分部掌舵人布野幸利(Yukitoshi Funo)将于今年7月加入9人组成的日本央行政策委员会。

Although Mr Funo’s views on monetary policy are not known, Toyota is one of the biggest beneficiaries of yen weakness brought about by the BoJ’s aggressive stimulus.

尽管布野幸利在货币政策方面的观点尚不为外界所知，但丰田已成为日本央行激进刺激政策引发的日元走低的最大受益方之一。

If approved, he will replace Yoshihisa Morimoto, a former executive at electricity company Tepco, who was part of the four-person minority who voted against additional BoJ easing last October in a 5-4 decision.

如果获得批准，他将接替东京电力公司(Tepco)前高管森本宜久(Yoshihisa Morimoto)的位置。去年10月，一次针对日本央行是否应加大宽松力度的投票以5：4的票数通过，森本宜久是投出反对票的4人少数派阵营成员之一。

The appointment of Mr Funo, while in keeping with the tradition of having industry executives on the BoJ board, may make it easier for governor Haruhiko Kuroda to push for additional monetary easing later in the year.

尽管此举遵循了让行业高管进入日本央行政策委员会的传统，但布野幸利获得此任命，或许会令央行行长黑田东彦(Haruhiko Kuroda)在今年晚些时候推动加大宽松力度更为容易。

Mr Funo has spent most of his career in Toyota’s international operations. He has an MBA from Columbia Business School and ran Toyota Motor Sales, the division that sells the company’s cars in the US, from 2005 to 2009.

布野幸利的大部分职业生涯是在丰田国际业务部门度过的。他拥有哥伦比亚大学商学院(Columbia Business School)的MBA学位，曾掌管丰田旗下业务部门——丰田汽车销售公司(Toyota Motor Sales)。2005年至2009年间，该公司负责美国市场的丰田车辆销售业务。