Analysts said the outcome of Ryosei Akazawa's visit could set the template for other countries' negotiations with US President Donald Trump's administration.
Despite being the biggest investor into the United States, Japan has still been pinched by steep levies imposed by Trump on imports of cars, steel and aluminium.
Akazawa will meet Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer later Wednesday.
The minister, who studied at a US university and is close to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, said he wants to “protect our national interests” in talks with Bessent and Greer, who are “fond of Japan“.
US officials are also set to hold talks with South Korea and others, but Stephen Innes at SPI Asset Management called the discussions with Japan a “canary in the tariff coal mine”.
And “don’t forget the elephant in the vault: Japan's still the biggest holder of US Treasuries. And that, my friend, is a whole lot of leverage”, he added.
Top Japanese officials including Ishiba have brushed aside claims that Tokyo may have deliberately created volatility in the US Treasury market to force Trump's pause of reciprocal tariffs, saying that is not what allies would do.
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