“Fujimaki said he recently bought put options for Japanese government bonds of various maturities, without elaborating. He continues to hold real estate in Japan and options granting the right to sell the yen against the greenback expiring in less than five years. He also holds assets in U.S. dollars and currencies of other developed nations. ‘Japan’s finance is sinking into the ocean,’ Fujimaki said. ‘There’s no escape from a market crash in the future when you have such enormous debt. By expanding the monetary base to 270 trillion yen, the BOJ is making a huge bet which I think it will ultimately lose,’ Fujimaki said in an interview in Tokyo on April 11.”
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