The Bank of Japan’s decision-making body was dominated by optimism that the likelihood of attaining its 2 percent inflation goal had increased in 2014, a year after it launched unorthodox monetary easing, the minutes of past policy meetings released Tuesday showed. Then BOJ chief Haruhiko Kuroda was in the optimistic camp, as he vowed to achieve 2 percent inflation in around two years’ time by providing massive monetary stimulus, which weakened the yen and boosted share prices. The weaker yen also boosted import costs for resource-scarce Japan. But inflation subsequently eased in line with the…