SENDAI, Japan: Finance ministers and central bankers from the G7 kick off meetings in Japan on Friday as they look to breathe life into the wheezing global economy.

The two days of talks, at a famous hot spring resort in a region badly hit by the 2011 quake-tsunami disaster, may highlight a sharp divide among the club of rich nations over currency policy and how to rev up global growth.

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