According to CoinMeta, as reported by the Japan Broadcasting System NHK, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen held talks with Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda and Japanese Finance Minister Taro Katsura during the G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors held in Asheville, North Carolina. Erin Brown, the Under Secretary for International Affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department, stated that Yellen emphasized to Kuroda and Minister Katsura the importance of clearly communicating Japan's next steps to the market—namely, fiscal sustainability and the path of interest rate hikes—and made it clear that this is the appropriate policy direction for the future.