In an interview with Reuters, Senior Fellow Hideo Hayakawa said the coronavirus is boosting the amount of money flowing into Japan’s economy. This could fire up inflation and achieve what years of the Bank of Japan’s ultra-loose monetary policy failed to do.

“Pandemic May Fire Up Japan’s Inflation, Doing What Cenbank Could Not, Economist Says,” Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-economy-abenomics-idUSKBN25L0IQ

Profile of Senior Fellow Hideo Hayakawa
https://www.tkfd.or.jp/en/experts/detail.php?id=620