Mizuho: The Bank of Japan does not believe that the risk of interest rate hikes falling behind the situation is particularly high. "On January 23rd, Yusuke Koshiyama, a senior economist at Mizuho, said," It is not surprising that the Bank of Japan will keep interest rates unchanged. The one who voted against it was central bank member Takada Chuang. Previously, Takada Chuang and Naoki Tamura had made some hawkish remarks. "" "As only Takada supports interest rate hikes this time, it can be said that on the other hand, Tamura does not believe that there is an immediate risk of falling behind the situation in dealing with the current depreciation of the yen." "In the outlook report, the lower limit of the core CPI forecast range has been raised compared to the last time. Considering this, although I cannot confirm whether the interest rate hike will occur in March or April, at least based on the information released in January, the Bank of Japan does not seem to consider the risk of a rate hike falling behind the situation particularly high. However, compared to last time, we should perhaps assume that the next interest rate hike may be earlier