政府・日銀、連携で一致　菅首相と黒田総裁が初会談

　菅義偉首相と日銀の黒田東彦総裁は２３日、首相官邸で会談し、新型コロナウイルスの影響を受ける国内外の経済情勢や金融市場動向について意見交換した。会談後、黒田総裁は記者団に対し、「政府・日銀が十分に意思疎通してしっかり連携し、政策運営することで一致した」と述べた。
　菅氏が首相に就任して以来、黒田総裁と官邸で会談するのは初めて。安倍晋三前政権に続き協調姿勢を打ち出すことで、経済政策「アベノミクス」の継承をアピールした格好だ。
　黒田総裁はまた、連休中に進んだ円高について「為替はファンダメンタルズ（経済の基礎的条件）を反映し、安定して推移することが望ましい」と述べ、市場の動きをけん制。政府と日銀の共同声明に盛り込まれている２％の物価上昇目標をめぐっては「具体的に（菅首相と）話したことはないが、実現を目指す考え方に全く変わりはない」と語った。（2020/09/23-18:01）

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda at a meeting on Wednesday affirmed continued cooperation between the government and the central bank.
   "We agreed that the government and the BOJ will conduct policy measures by sufficiently communicating with each other and fully working together," Kuroda told reporters after the meeting, held at the prime minister's office.
   "It's desirable that exchange rates move stably reflecting economic fundamentals," he added, in reference to the yen's rise in overseas trading during the holiday weekend in Japan. Japanese financial markets were closed on Monday and Tuesday for national holidays.
   The Suga-Kuroda meeting at the prime minister's office was the first since Suga took office on Sept. 16. Suga's predecessor, Shinzo Abe, met with Kuroda at the prime minister's office about twice a year to exchange opinions on economic and other issues.
   At a news conference on Thursday last week, Kuroda said that he plans to hold regular talks with Suga, as he did with the former prime minister.