BOJ governor Kuroda still going on

  • Board members view downside risks from overseas economies are somewhat large
  • If EM slowdown continues it could hurt Japanese trade and corp earnings
  • There's no limits to BOJ's ability to ease policy further
  • There was no proposal to ease further at today's meeting
  • Desirable if prices rise to target in a balanced way with wage growth and corp profits
  • Board judged that can achieve price target by carrying out current easing
  • QQE transmission mechanism is working as expected
  • Expects wages to rise further given corp profits and tightening labour market
  • Wage growth has been somewhat weak considering level of corp profits
  • BOJ is not planning to directly try and cause wage rises