Earlier comments from Bank of Japan board member Sato are here

More now (via Reuters):

  • Japanese companies do not think recent profit improvement will continue
  • Mid- to long-term inflation expectations rising on the whole
  • Gains in services prices key to maintaining core CPI around 1%
  • Government CPI data has some statistical problems, recently deviating from people's perception of prices
  • Slow decline in nominal rates suggests boj's qe impact is diminishing
  • BOJ cannot buy JGBs indefinitely at current pace as financial institutions have reasons to not sell JGBs

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Sato does not sound like a man who wants to do more BOJ easing

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Yen is doing little throughout