Central government ministry covering budget, tax, customs, international policy, currency and financial system stabilisation. Its Local Finance Bureaus sit under the Ministry.
What they do
The Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act gives the Minister of Finance power to require permission for capital transactions (Art. 21). Directors-General of Local Finance Bureaus issue supervisory orders to local cooperative banks, for example the Hokkaido and Tohoku Finance Bureaus in 2025.
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