favorable

１５日の参院本会議で、国会は白川方明日銀総裁の後任に黒田東彦アジア開発銀行総裁を起用する政府人事案に賛成多数で同意、人事は正式に承認される見通となりました。

favorableは「（…にとって）有利で、好都合で 」ということですが、「追い風が吹く」、「運が味方している」なども場合によっては良いのかもしれません。（UG）

Diet endorses Kuroda as BOJ governor

The Diet on Friday endorsed Haruhiko Kuroda, a finance ministry veteran and president of the Asian Development Bank, to become the Bank of Japan governor and spearhead efforts to break the world’s third-largest economy out of its long bout of deflation.

Kuroda’s support is crucial to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s efforts to revive the economy through a combination of monetary easing, robust government spending and longer-term reforms.

Trends have proved favorable for Abe since he took office late last year. The yen has dropped more than 20% against the U.S. dollar in a coup for beleaguered export manufacturers. Share prices have surged, with the benchmark Nikkei 225 index up 27% in the past three months.

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