MyALSO POSSIBLE: Some Miscellaneous Notes

Visiting Japanese Sshrines areis said to have differentoffer various divine benefits, and b. By praying at themre, you can receive blessings for (things like) safe childbirth, romantic success, family safety, traffic safety, and warding off misfortune.

NOTE: The phrase "things like" can be deleted.

MY PREFERENCE: There's a saying that if you can throw a stone onto a torii gate and have it stay there, good luck will follow but. However, this isn't really recommended because of the danger of falling stones.

Given the widespread outcry over high prices in Japan, the reason for keeping the policy interest rate at 0.5% is that the BOJ cannot raise interest rates due to its own financial situationconstraits.

I reckon that further interest rate hikes might trigger a continuous flow of losses, resulting in the large valuation losses occurring daily and eroding assets. This is because The currently the BOJ holds more than half of theits outstanding long-term Japanese government bonds due to the fact that they have continued to buy deficit Japanese government bonds.

Who’s will be left holding the bag?

I reckon that further interest rate hikes could trigger a continuous flow of losses, resulting in the large valuation losses occurring daily and eroding assets because The current BOJ holds more than half of the outstanding long-term Japanese government bonds due to the fact that they have continued to buy deficit Japanese government bonds.

The use of "further" implies that the interest rate was recently raised but that doesn't sound like that is the case because of the previous sentence. If the interest rate was not recently raised then perhaps something like one of the following options may work better:

"I reckon that if the interest rate is raised it could trigger a continuous flow of losses...."
or
"I reckon that should the interest rate be raised it could trigger a continuous flow of losses...."

The answer is pretty open-and-shut to me.

This sentence makes sense but generally when using the idiom "open-and-shut" we'll say something like "It's an open-and-shut case". I've never heard someone say an answer is open-and-shut but that could just be my personal experience. Maybe a more natural way to say this would be, "The answer is pretty clear to me"