食品値上がり、利上げで対応も　デフレ心理に変化―植田日銀総裁

　植田和男日銀総裁は２６日、衆院財務金融委員会に出席し、金融政策などに関する報告書（半期報告）の概要を説明した。植田総裁は最近の食料品などの値上がりに関して「一時的であれば、金融政策で反応すべきでない」としながらも、「インフレが経済に広がる可能性につながれば、場合によっては利上げで対応する」と語った。
　植田総裁は「賃金・物価が上がりにくいことを前提とした考え方をデフレマインドと呼ぶとすると、これは変化してきている」と指摘。ただ「賃金・物価の好循環が継続的に回るところまでは、もう一歩届いていない」と述べた。（2025/03/26-11:44）

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda suggested Wednesday that the central bank may raise interest rates to respond to recent increases in food and other prices.
   While emphasizing that monetary policy should not be used to deal with inflation if it is temporary, Ueda said, "We may respond by raising interest rates in some cases" if higher prices may lead to the possibility of inflation spreading through the economy.
   "If we call a situation in which wages and prices are unlikely to rise a deflationary mindset, this is changing," he told a meeting of the Financial Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, the lower chamber of the Diet, Japan's parliament.
   He suggested, however, that the economy has yet to reach the point at which a virtuous cycle of wages and prices will continue.
   Still, Ueda said that the economy is in a state of inflation in the sense that consumer prices are rising at present.