BlackRock Names Ex-Japan Post Bank President as Japan Chairman

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BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest money manager, named the former top executive of Japan Post Holdings Co.’s banking unit as its representative chairman for Japan.

Yoshiyuki Izawa will start the job on May 18, New York-based BlackRock said in a faxed statement Tuesday. The U.S. company’s Japan President Masato Degawa will resign on April 30, it said.