A week after Japan’s top central banker shook up global markets with comments about raising interest rates, one of his deputies promised not to hike them while markets are unstable. Wednesday's promise by Bank of Japan Deputy Gov. Shinichi Uchida helped Japanese stocks build on Tuesday's rally and saw the yen pull back further: + The Nikkei Stock Average closed 1.2% higher, after starting the Japanese morning down more than 2%. Wednesday's moves bring Japanese markets closer to where they were before July 31, when the central bank lifted its main interest rate to 0.25% and Gov. Kazuo Ueda suggested he wanted to keep tightening monetary policy.