Japan has not yet conquered deflation, finance minister warns

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Japan has not yet beaten deflation despite years of persistently rising consumer prices and the largest round of annual wage increases in three decades, the country’s finance minister has warned.

Katsunobu Kato’s blunt assessment in an interview with the Financial Times comes 15 months into the Bank of Japan’s efforts to “normalise” the economy and gradually…