The markets appear increasingly complacent over the outlook for Japanese interest rates. In part this reflects three common misunderstandings about the inflation data: the impact of base year revisions, the implications of excluding energy costs from the core CPI, and the significance of the differences between CPI inflation and the lower numbers derived from the GDP price deflators.
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