boj minutes, 2025-05-01
The year-on-year rate of increase in the consumer price index (CPI, all items less fresh food) had been in the range of 3.0-3.5 percent recently, as moves to pass on wage increases to selling prices continued, and as there had been effects of the past rise in import prices and of the rise in food prices, such as rice prices.
Sentiment: neutral
Topic: mp_inflation