Japan finmin: shouldn't say if to intervene in mkts

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TOKYO, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Japanese Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii said on Monday he would refrain from commenting on whether the government would intervene in the foreign exchange markets.

Fujii told reporters at a seminar in Tokyo that some market players had been distorting his recent comments on forex markets.

The U.S. dollar fell to an eight-month low of 88.23 yen on Monday as investors unwound short yen positions and as expectations faded that Japan would intervene at these levels. [FRX/] FXNEWS (Reporting by Hideyuki Sano and Tetsushi Kajimoto; Editing by Hugh Lawson)