# Japan-US coordinated intervention took shape after May finance ministers’ meeting

https://mins.news/en/item/12106

- NHK News, 2026-08-02 20:01 UTC
- Economy
- Original: https://news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/na-k10015194421000

> Japan and US monetary authorities last week jointly intervened in the market by buying yen to curb the currency’s historic depreciation. Coordination on the move became substantive during a meeting of the two countries’ finance ministers in Tokyo in mid-May this year. Discussions and preparations then advanced, leading to the coordinated intervention described in the report.

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