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Japan Weekly: Ueda cautious despite strongest pay hikes in 34 years

Even though this year’s spring wage negotiations resulted in the largest pay hike since 1991, Bank of Japan Governor Ueda this week sounded worried about developments overseas. That creates risk to our non-consensus view that the Bank will hike rates in May already rather than wait until July as most anticipate.

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