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a rare English-language post on X, the ministry said "Please
don’t follow the impersonation account and/or comment on the
post", saying such an X account purportedly belonging to Kanda
or his staff did not exist.
"MOF is currently requesting that X (formerly Twitter) suspends
the impersonation account. Thank you for your cooperation" it
said, in its official account .
The account, under the name "Masato Kanda" and the user ID "@Jgghkj_",
appeared to have been created in March and made only five posts
to date, including three pictures of Kanda posted on March 1.
The latest post, made at 3:56 pm (0656 GMT), appeared to have
impersonated Kanda's recent trip to Ukraine.
Kanda was in Ukraine on Wednesday to explain Japan's support for
the country, the MOF had announced.
The fake account, which follows about 5,000 users and was
followed by little more than 550, has made no remarks about the
yen or financial markets.
Kanda, Japan's vice-minister of finance for international
affairs, has been the central figure in the country's efforts to
stem the sharp decline of its yen currency since last year,
supervising record yen-buying, dollar-selling operations late
last year.
Prior to the Bank of Japan's latest July 27-28 policy meeting,
Kanda made rare remarks on the chance of BOJ policy tweaks, in
addition to warning the market that authorities will consider
all options to deal with the yen's excess volatility.
The BOJ surprised markets with a tweak to its bond yield control
programme last week, allowing interest rates to rise more
freely.
The yen weakened on Thursday to hit 143.89 against U.S. dollar,
its lowest since July 7, as BOJ announced emergency bond
purchases to check a surge in 10-year bond yields.
Markets are closely watching the MOF's next moves as the yen is
nearing 145 per dollar again, a level that triggered Japan's
first yen-buying intervention since 1998 last September.
(Reporting by Kantaro Komiya; Editing by Kim Coghill)
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