The Bank of Japan could abandon its inflation target of 2% or suspend it after the job market is tight enough, because the public had better not let prices fall rather than rise, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic adviser said.
Although inflation is close to 1%, the Bank of Japan's ultra-loose monetary policy is progressing smoothly as it creates jobs and raises temporary workers'wages. Koichi Hamada said he was considered one of the main designers of Prime Minister's "Abe Economics" stimulus policy.
"Prices need not go up too much. Hamada told Reuters on Friday that from the point of view of people's lives, it would be preferable for prices to fall rather than rise.
"I think it can give up," Hamada said of the Bank of Japan's difficult 2% inflation target. This is not absolutely critical. "He added that the appropriate inflation target level could be determined by the central bank.
These remarks highlight a shift in public sentiment, with the Bank of Japan's radical monetary experiment begun in 2013 by Haruhiko Kuroda of Heilongjiang Province as one of the three pillars of Abe Economics.
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