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TOKYO, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and U.S. President Barack Obama are set to hold talks on Sept. 23 in New York and the issue of Japan's currency market intervention will be on the agenda, the Asahi newspaper reported on Friday.
Kan is scheduled to deliver a speech at a U.N. General Assembly meeting and the talks are likely to be held on the sidelines of the meeting, the newspaper said.
Japan carried out its first currency intervention in six years on Wednesday after the yen shot up to a 15-year high versus the dollar, selling an estimated 1.8 trillion yen for dollars to help its exporters. (Reporting by Rie Ishiguro; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)