Headline inflation in Japan rose to 3.3 per cent in June, outpacing the US figure for the first time in eight years and underscoring how Asia’s most advanced economy is no longer an outlier in global inflation.
Price pressures in Japan, which has battled deflation for most of the past three decades, have proven to be broader and stickier than expected. This increases the pressure on the Bank of Japan, which meets next week and faces calls from investors to unwind its ultra-loose monetary policy.
Japan remains the world’s only central bank with negative interest rates, and any reversal of this strategy would have massive implications for global financial markets.
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