Abe committed to continue doing what Japan has been doing for the last 20 years anyhow. That is not a change in monetary policy. That is not a commitment to bei

Abe committed to continue doing what Japan has been doing for the last 20 years anyhow. That is not a change in monetary policy. That is not a commitment to being irresponsible. That is just business as usual. No inflation was caused by that. The only difference is that he mixed in a BIT of stimulus spending to the mix. That actually had a real inflationary effect on the economy, although the stimulus wasn't that big so the effect wasn't that big either.