The Bank of Japan carefully monitored the international financial markets by closely contacting domestic banks and overseas authorities, facilitating the funding operations of Japanese banks in the domestic markets – I will elaborate on this point later.
While I will not explain this in detail, as it is somewhat technical, considering such statistical tendency, or upward bias, an appropriate figure for price stability in terms of the  2  CPI is a slightly positive figure. The second reason for aiming at 2 percent inflation is the need to have a buffer for monetary policy.