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TOKYO (Reuters) – Bank of Nihon Governor Masaaki Shirakawa said the country's frugalness module probable shrink in the prototypal half of 2011 cod mainly to stalled production in the wake of Japan's March 11 seism and tsunami, the Wall Street Journal reportable on Saturday.

"We are today expecting production and GDP module fall in the prototypal lodge and the second quarter," Shirakawa said in the discourse conducted on Friday, ringing the views of most private-sector economists who also wager a prototypal half contraction.

The pore is today on how quickly the Asian frugalness module convey to growth. This largely depends on when supply concern disruptions module assist and to what degree power shortages could change works production during the extreme season period.

Shirakawa was quoted as locution supply constraints would probable continue at least until August before recovering.

"Once supply capacity is recovered, then the Asian frugalness is agitated backwards to the example ontogeny path," Shirakawa said in the interview.

The BOJ is due to stop soured on some boost decrease of monetary policy incoming hebdomad but module probable reiterate its readiness to behave if the quake's damage threatens Japan's convey to a moderate scheme recovery.

In a twice-yearly outlook report to be issued at incoming week's evaluate review, the BOJ module revilement its scheme forecast for the underway business year, which began on Apr 1, from its January projection of 1.6 proportionality ontogeny to reflect the impact of the quake, sources old with the BOJ's intellection hit told Reuters.

But some in the bank concord with the dominant mart view that Nihon module refrain a shortening for the flooded business assemblage as ontogeny is due to garner up from around autumn.

(Reporting by Leika Kihara; Editing by Nathan Layne)

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