Japan’s vaccine rollout has got off to a crawling start and a fourth wave of coronavirus infections is forming. Even so, we expect vaccines to allow domestic spending to rebound fully in the second half of this year. Our forecast that GDP will rise 3.6% this year is well above the analyst consensus of +2.8%.
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