The recent spike in energy prices will lift import prices in Japan by around 10%, but the increase would be twice as large if Russian energy exports were banned. Japan’s flagship manufacturing sectors have sufficient pricing power to pass on those cost increases to consumers and profit margins should remain around record highs. The flipside though is that we now expect inflation to reach 2.3% next quarter and remain there until year-end.
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