Bank of Japan board member says it'll take some time to stably hit Japan's inflation target
- Japan's economy likely to continue recovering as impact of pandemic, supply constraints eases
- pandemic's impact on consumption, Ukraine crisis among key risks to Japan's economic outlook
- if energy prices rise further, that will push up inflation but weigh on economy
- Japan's core consumer inflation to accelerate to around 2% from April, may speed up further depending on global commodity price moves
- Japan's worsening terms of trade driven by rising energy and raw material prices with weak yen playing very limited part
- Japan is not experiencing the kind of high inflation seen in many other countries
- trend inflation excluding energy factors remain very low in japan
- most important for BOJ to maintain patiently sustain current monetary easing
- it will take significant time for inflation to stably achieve boj's target
- energy prices will likely remain elevated for some time, which could heighten sustainability of global inflation
- global economy experiencing typical cost-push inflation, which hurts economic activity
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