Japan and South Korea agreed Saturday in Tokyo to increase the size of a bilateral currency swap agreement to $15 billion from $7 billion to help address potential financial crises in Asia.
Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki and his South Korean counterpart, Han Duck Soo, said they reached the agreement during the first of a series of annual meetings.
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