Bank of Japan (BOJ) Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda said the central bank will maintain its target of ensuring 2 percent inflation around fiscal 2015 and take necessary steps if it strays from the path to the goal.
“We will not be able to achieve (the target) if we take the stance to ease our commitments when it becomes difficult to achieve the price stability target,” Kuroda told the Mainichi Shimbun in an interview. He said the central bank will make “necessary adjustments” if it deviates from the path toward the 2 percent inflation target. He implied that the central bank could move ahead to ease monetary policy one more notch with an eye to employing new techniques, saying, “There are plenty of ways to do this.”
Kuroda said the criteria for determining whether the central bank has achieved the target include whether the consumer price index (CPI) and the expected price increase rate envisioned by consumers and businesses will stabilize at an annual rate of 2 percent. But many experts think it is difficult to achieve the 2 percent target within a year or two due to declining oil prices and a slow recovery in consumption, and therefore the BOJ could come under increased pressure to ease monetary policy further.
via Mainichi
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