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Japan's prime minister, attempting to build support for painful fiscal reforms, said Saturday that the country should be alarmed by ratings cuts in Europe and must tackle its massive public debts to avoid becoming the next target.

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The Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the central banks of Canada, Britain, Japan and Switzerland said they had agreed to lower the cost of existing dollar swap lines.

IMF chief Christine Lagarde says Japan can increase the resources of the IMF if needed.

The chief of the International Monetary Fund said Saturday that Italy's financial reform is key to reducing the impact of the eurozone crisis, and that no country is immune to the consequences if the efforts fall short.

The dollar has jumped against the yen after Japanese monetary authorities intervened in the currency market to weaken the yen, whose recent appreciation has hurt the country's vital exporters.

In this May 31, 2011 file photo, cars for export are parked at a Yokohama port, south of Tokyo.

The ousted chief executive of Japan's Olympus Corp. says the company isn't doing enough to investigate a massive $687 million payment to mysterious financial advisers as part of a takeover.

Toyota's global vehicle production has recovered to pre-tsunami levels as of last month, Japan's top automaker said Thursday.

Japan's factory production rose for the fifth straight month in August, almost restoring it to levels recorded before the March earthquake and tsunami disasters.