Japan has yet to achieve price gains driven by higher wages with the recent rise in inflation driven by cost-push factors, Bank of Japan board member Asahi Noguchi said on Saturday, suggesting it was premature to retreat from ultra-loose monetary policy. “It’s true the impact of elevated global inflation is reaching Japan’s economy with consumer inflation exceeding the BOJ’s 2 per cent target since the spring of 2022,” Noguchi said, according to the text of his speech posted on the BOJ’s website. “But the rise (in inflation) is mostly due to cost-push factors amid higher import prices,” contrary to the wage-driven .

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