Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda will meet with Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama and Economic Revitalisation Minister Minoru Kiuchi on Wednesday, the Ministry of Finance said in a statement. Katayama will hold a news conference after the meeting,

A former prime minister called her timing “crazy,” saying that during his tenure, they started at 6 or 7 a.m., not in the dead of night.

The Japanese prime minister has revealed she typically sleeps for just two hours each night and asks aides to meet at 3am, sparking fresh concern in a country known for overworking and high levels of burnout.

The Japanese leader only sleeps two to four hours a night—and has personally pledged to ditch work-life balance in favor of “work, work, work.”

Sanae Takaichi drew criticism for requiring staff to work in the wee hours in a country scarred by “death from overwork.”

I told him that we were light on the infrastructure, but I believe that’s going to be coming. An announcement on steel and softwood lumber that affects Ontario in a big way, he’ll be addressing that over the next week or so.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said there needed to be the chance of a “concrete result” regarding ending the war in Ukraine in for any meeting to take place between President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — When Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán visits President Donald Trump in the White House on Friday, his priority will be convincing the U.S. administration to turn a blind eye to Hungary’s dogged commitment to buying Russian oil, a potential test of how deep the affinity goes between the two friendly leaders.

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi respected the Bank of Japan’s independence on Tuesday during a 25-minute meeting with Gov. Kazuo Ueda, where any discussion about the movement of interest rates and the timing of any changes was kept general and vague.