BOJ's Kiuchi: Appropriate price level for Japan lower than 2 pct

Comments from Bank of Japan board member Kiuchi:

• Expect private consumption to remain firm
• Says China's economic growth momentum weakening, other emerging nations' economies also lacking strength
• Says Japan exports likely to increase gradually
• Says hold a more cautious view on Japan's economic, price outlook than median BOJ projections
• Focusing more on downside risks than upside regrading overseas economic outlook
• Says pace of rise in japanese prices likely to remain moderate even as output gap narrows
• Strengthening monetary easing too much to push up inflation in short period will threaten economic, price stability
• Says should make timeframe for 2 pct inflation target a flexible one

•  Says if liquidity in JGB market thins too much, that will heighten volatility and destabilise markets
• Must be more mindful now of risk BOJ's huge asset buying will impair mechanism for maintaining fiscal discipline
• Says very important to restore Japan's fiscal health to smoothly normalise monetary policy in future
• Says must bear in mind that appropriate pace of inflation in japan now is likely lower than 2 percent
• Says at some point, the BOJ must examine gradually starting to shift focus of monetary policy away from asset purchases to other policy tools
• Says technically possible for the Bank of Japan to keep buying JGBs for the time ebing, but must be mindful of whether current pace of buying is sustainable

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