Japan said on Thursday it was ready to answer an International Monetary Fund (IMF) call for extra cash to help Europe steer a course through its sovereign debt crisis, a report said. “Japan is prepared to support European efforts to stabilise the market, including through lending to the IMF, based on strong efforts by European [...]

Japan said it will bolster its currency market intervention war chest by 30 trillion yen ($385 billion), the second-biggest increase on record, as it moves to tame the soaring currency. The move came as Japanese exporters, a key driver of the country’s economy, continue to complain that a strong yen makes their products less competitive [...]

Japan sold 9.09 trillion yen from late October to stem the currency’s rise against the dollar, the finance ministry said on Wednesday, amid fears over the nation’s post-quake economic recovery. Tokyo said it intervened in currency markets after the yen hit a post-war high of 75.32 per dollar on October 31, and the action at [...]

Japan’s fiscal policy minister said the government wants to cooperate with other Asian nations to minimise the possible impact of European debt crisis contagion denting the region. “We’d like to aggressively seek cooperation with Asian partners, and expanding our currency swap deal with Korea is a good example,” Motohisa Furukawa, state minister of economic and [...]