Haruhiko Kuroda, president of the Asian Development Bank, was approved by Japan's parliament Friday to become the new governor of the central bank, dpa reported. The upper house confirmed Kuroda as governor, and Kikuo Iwata, professor of economics at Gakushuin University in Tokyo, together with Hiroshi Nakaso, currently the bank's executive director, as deputy governors, following the approval of the lower house on Thursday. They will take the posts on Wednesday. The three were nominated by the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who pledged to pull the world's third-largest economy out of deflation. -- SPA 15:01 LOCAL TIME 12:01 GMT تغريد