According to Jinshi, Moody's Analytics said in its weekly Asia-Pacific Economic Outlook that Japan's core CPI year-on-year growth in May may rise to 2.5% from 2.2% in April, reflecting the government's gradual withdrawal of support for household energy spending. Due to the delayed transmission of producer price increases to consumers and the weakness of the yen, both overall and core inflation issues have proved to be tricky. Moody's expects core inflation to ease further in the absence of demand-driven price pressures. Japan's May inflation data will be released on Friday.