The strong rebound in household consumption last quarter was underpinned by a pick-up in real incomes. This should allay lingering concerns among BoJ policymakers that the economy is too weak to cope with tighter monetary policy and we're sticking to our forecast of a final rate hike to 0.5% in October.
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