[Japan Ministry of Finance holds Digital yen expert meeting] on April 22, Japan's Ministry of Finance held the first expert meeting on the feasibility of issuing "digital yen", a legal currency in the form of electronic data, on the 21st, starting a discussion on topics such as a summary of topics during the year. The Bank of Japan also began to prepare empirical experiments involving private financial institutions in April. The meeting is a "CBDC (Central Bank Digital currency) related expert meeting". The government has not yet decided whether to introduce digital yen and will use the report of the meeting as a judgment material in the future.