A perfect storm of surging house prices, a further worsening of supply shortages, and a pick-up in labour mobility would be needed to cause an inflation surge in Japan. Even if inflation did reach 2%, this wouldn’t necessarily trigger a policy response by the Bank of Japan as policymakers would have to be convinced that the shift was permanent.
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