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“The countdown is beginning” toward the end of Japan’s “decade-long radical monetary easing”, says Megumi Fujikawa in The Wall Street Journal. Last week, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) surprised markets by announcing more flexibility in its yield-curve control (YCC) policy.
The BoJ had been the last major holdout on ultra-loose money as other