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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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