Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Toshihiko Fukui smiles as he arrives at an upper house budget committee at the parliament in Tokyo March 10, 2006, a day after the Bank of Japan ended a five-year-old experiment with its ultra-loose "quantitative easing" monetary policy on Thursday. Japan's central bank and government squared off politely on Friday over when to raise interest rate. REUTERS/Issei Kato