Besent held talks with the Governor of the Bank of Japan and the Finance Minister one after another, saying that Japan needs to clarify the route of raising interest rates

On September 1, according to the Japan Broadcasting Association NHK, during the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meeting held in Asheville, North Carolina, senior U.S. Treasury officials revealed that U.S. Treasury Secretary Basent and Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda and Japanese Finance Minister Takayama held talks one after another. Erin Brown, U.S. Treasury Undersecretary for International Affairs, said: "Treasury Secretary Bessent held talks with Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda yesterday, and just now he held talks with Finance Minister Takazuki Katayama." Brown said Basent "emphasized to both Kazuo Ueda and Minister Katayama the importance of clearly communicating to the market Japan's next steps-namely fiscal sustainability and the path to interest rates." Besent made it clear that this is the appropriate policy direction in the future."