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"Japanese interest rates turned positive last year after a protracted stint of virtual non-existence; inflation expectations now look entrenched, so money, as well as looking more portable than before, has to work harder for everyone than it has needed to since Japan's current crop of 25-year-olds was born. Demographics have also caught up with financial arrangements. According to government figures, an estimated 17.4 million Japanese, or 14 per cent of the current population, are forecast to die between now and 2035.

That implies an inheritance avalanche the likes of which the country has never experienced. Money will move with velocity between generations, between financial institutions and potentially between international markets: the heirs do not reliably stow wealth where their parents did.

The allocation of Japan's trilliondollar stash of household assets, roughly half of which have been nonchalantly parked in cash and bank deposits for decades, is simultaneously moving under the pressures of a huge behavioural and environmental shift: rising prices, particularly of food, are forcing a quest for returns that few bothered to consider a few years ago."

Trechos retirados do FT do passado dia 3 de Julho em "Japan's great financial unsticking has begun"