TOKYO: Japan’s central bank on Tuesday pushed back its timeline for reaching a high-profile inflation target, in the latest acknowledgement that Tokyo’s war on deflation is falling way below expectations.

After a policy meeting, the Bank of Japan said it now expected prices to move “toward” 2.0 percent by March 2019, the latest in a series of delays.

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