• Wants BOJ to make sure it keeps providing liquidity. cooperate with government
• Will keep monitoring markets
• Will take the appropriate steps at the appropriate times
• Yen rose on speculation but it has come down
• Hard to compile extra budet for aftermath of quake by March 31
• To first make use of reserve funds in the current fiscal years’ budget for quake measures
• To decide on size of quake measures after grasping the damage situation
• Size of extra budget likely to be bigger than the extra budgets for the 1995 Kobe quake