Japanese finance minister warns that the country has not yet dealt with deflation

In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Japanese Minister of Finance Katsunobu Kato mentioned that Japan had yet to combat deflation despite rising consumer prices and a surge in wages. Kato explained that the seemingly positive trends in the consumer markets were not enough to declare Japan free of deflation. The finance minister also insisted that the government would only consider deflation to be over when there were no longer prospects of reverting to the trend. source: https://www.cryptopolitan.com/japanese-finance-minister-deflation/