Finance

Mizuho CEO Expects Japan’s Bond Market to Withstand Volatility

Masahiro Kihara in London, on July 14.Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg

Mizuho Financial Group Inc.’s chief executive officer said turbulence in the Japanese government bond market is unlikely to spread to 10-year issuance, even as yields on those notes reached the highest level since 2008.

“I haven’t seen any turmoil in the 10-year zone,” Masahiro Kihara, CEO of Japan’s third-biggest bank, said in a Bloomberg Television interview from London. “As long as the 10-year is fine, I think it’s fine.”