With signs of quick economic recovery still nowhere in sight, debate is continuing amid considerable dissension on policy options linked to an inflation target rate.
Hideyuki Aizawa, the Liberal Democratic Party's re- search subcommittee chairman, is advocating the policy.
His working party, set up earlier this month under the LDP's financial research committee, is charged with the task of evaluating whether such an option would be appropriate to pull the nation out of its present predicament.