The recent sharp fall in Japan’s ratio of public debt to GDP reflects one-off factors that won’t be sustained. While the influence of rising bond yields on the trajectory of the public finances will largely be offset by higher inflation and nominal GDP growth, the government will need to reduce its primary budget deficit sharply to prevent the public debt ratio from creeping higher again.
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