<div>BOJ's Kuroda says near-term focus will be to ease funding strains</div> <!-- no image --> <div>Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said on Tuesday the near-term focus of monetary policy would be on easing corporate funding strains and stabilising financial markets.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=Qoy0b4-FhKA:qK3Zv_7TOBM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=Qoy0b4-FhKA:qK3Zv_7TOBM:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=Qoy0b4-FhKA:qK3Zv_7TOBM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></a> <a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?a=Qoy0b4-FhKA:qK3Zv_7TOBM:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/UKBankingFinancial?i=Qoy0b4-FhKA:qK3Zv_7TOBM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/UKBankingFinancial/~4/Qoy0b4-FhKA" height="1" width="1" alt=""></div> Posted by Reuters