Bank of Japan Finally Discovers Inflation. Only Took Three Decades.
Institution that ignored deflation for 30 years suddenly alarmed by prices. Institutional memory: optional.
The Bank of Japan has discovered something most central banks grasped in the early 2020s: inflation exists, it can overshoot, and interest rates may need to rise faster than previously comfortable. This realization, arriving roughly three decades behind schedule, is now forcing the BoJ into a policy