{"id":461876,"date":"2026-02-08T14:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T14:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/461876\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T14:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T14:36:08","slug":"japan-must-take-professional-approach-in-tapping-fx-reserves-finance-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/461876\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan must take &#8216;professional&#8217; approach in tapping FX reserves, finance minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">TOKYO, Feb 8 (Reuters) &#8211; Japan must take a &#8220;professional&#8221; approach in \u200btapping its huge foreign reserves \u200cto fund spending and tax cuts \u200cas doing so would not be easy, Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">Tapping foreign reserves \u2060could be an \u200coption given recent yen moves, though doing so \u200dcould cause problems as the reserves are used to conduct currency intervention, \u200bKatayama said in a television \u200cprogramme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">&#8220;The prime minister understands this point well. We would need to look at markets and decide what the most effective asset \u2060management is for Japan, \u200bso that we \u200bare taking a professional approach that does not cause any \u200dproblems,&#8221; \u2060she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">&#8220;If necessary, we would like to seek dialogue with \u2060markets on Monday in various forms,&#8221; \u200cshe said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-vbsvxt\">(Reporting by Leika KiharaEditing \u200cby Chang-Ran Kim)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO, Feb 8 (Reuters) &#8211; Japan must take a &#8220;professional&#8221; approach in \u200btapping its huge foreign reserves \u200cto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,49,48,188767,46,132705,2454,188766,130406,89972,92015],"class_list":["post-461876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-currency-intervention","tag-economy","tag-foreign-reserves","tag-japan","tag-professional-approach","tag-satsuki-katayama","tag-tax-cuts","tag-television-programme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}