Yen Intervention Risk Rises on Reports of Katayama-Bessent Talks

Satsuki Katayama, Japan's finance minister, speaks during a Bloomberg New Voices event at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, April 23, 2026. Katayama said officials are in close contact around the clock with their US counterparts on the foreign exchange market, as Tokyo remains on alert over speculative moves that are keeping the yen weak.