InvestmentsTop Global NewsMarketsReal Estate Pandemic may fire up Japan’s inflation, doing what cenbank could not, economist says By financialnews_rlv83x - August 25, 2020 0 67 The coronavirus shock is boosting the amount of money flowing into Japan’s economy and may fire up inflation, achieving what years of ultra-loose monetary policy failed to do, the central bank’s former top economist, Hideo Hayakawa, said on Tuesday.