Japan hopes to hold economic talks with U.S. in October - finance minister


  • World
  • Thursday, 03 Aug 2017

Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso leaves the G7 for Financial ministers meeting in the southern Italian city of Bari, Italy, May 12, 2017. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan hopes to hold economic talks with Washington in October, Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Thursday.

"I'm hoping to conduct rough preparations with Vice President (Mike) Pence in September and hold a formal talk in October," Aso told reporters, shortly before he was formally reappointed to his post in a cabinet reshuffle.

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