Discussing what is on top of U.S. President Obama's agenda when he visit Asia, with Frank Lavin, former White House political director under the Reagan administration, speaking with CNBC's Martin Soong & Sri Jegarajah.
Japanese cabinet ministers are putting pressure on the Bank of Japan urging it to respond to deflation. "We've had a very contractionary fiscal policy combined with a contractionary monetary policy and that's really beginning to show now," Lisa Fox from Japaninvest said Tuesday.