Japan finmin says no US request to buy Treasuries

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TOKYO, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Japan has not received a direct request from the United States to buy additional U.S. Treasuries using its foreign reserves, Japan's Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa said on Monday.

On stock market moves, Nakagawa told a TV Tokyo television programme that while he hoped stock prices would rise, financial markets were awaiting the timing and size of the U.S. government's planned capital injection into banks. (Reporting by Leika Kihara; Editing by Rodney Joyce)