Japan sends financial expert to Ukraine

Masaru Tanaka / president.gov.ua

Tanaka will advise on the reform of Ukraine's financial systems, including how to dispose of bad loans held by national banks, NHK wrote.

The Japanese government sent the expert on a one-year mission. He is knowledgeable about international finance.

Read alsoUkraine, Japan sign $300 mln credit agreementThe dispatch of the expert is part of Japan's efforts to support Ukraine as a G7 member. Japan holds the rotating G7 presidency this year.

As UNIAN reported earlier, the founder of the "supply-side economics" and prominent U.S. economist Arthur Laffer has been designated the advisor of the Minister of Finance of Ukraine for tax policy issues.