The Bank of Japan skipped additional monetary easing at its Policy Board meeting on Friday while pushing back the timing of achieving its 2 percent inflation target further by a half year to around the second half of fiscal 2016.

At the meeting the board decided by an eight-to-one vote to keep unchanged its policy of increasing Japan’s monetary base at an annual pace of \80 trillion under its quantitative and qualitative easing regime.

In its outlook for Economic Activity and Prices report, adopted at the meeting, the BOJ said that year-on-year growth in core CPI, which excludes fresh food prices, is expected to reach around 2 percent around the second half of fiscal 2016.

In April, the BOJ moved back the timing for hitting the 2 percent inflation target to around the first half of fiscal 2016 from in or around fiscal 2015.(Reference: Japan news by The Yomiuri Shimbun)

日本銀行は、金曜日の政策委員会で追加金融緩和をせず、２％のインフレ目標の達成時期を半年遅らせ、２０１６年の後半にずらした。

会合では、委員会は、その質的・量的緩和体制の下で、毎年のペースで日本のマネタリーベースを８０兆円増やすという政策を維持することを、委員の８対１で決定した。

会合で受諾された、「経済・物価情勢の展望」で、生鮮食品を除いた前年比の消費者物価は２０１６年の後半に約２％上昇すると予想されると、日銀は述べた

４月に、日本銀行は、２％のインフレ目標の達成時期を２０１５年度前後から２０１６年度前半へずらしていた。（ジャパン・ニューズー読売新聞）。