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TOKYO (Reuters) – Ratings agency Fitch on Friday cut its outlook on Japan's ruler debt to perverse from stable, warning that the large cost of a March seism and wave would put additional lineage on the country's already unsafe public finances.

The yearning fell against the dollar and the euro directly after the advise from Fitch, which follows a kindred downgrade by Standard & Poor's terminal month.

Fitch affirmed its AA judgement on Japan.

"Japan's ruler credit-worthiness is low perverse pressure from ascension polity indebtedness," said Andrew Colquhoun, nous of Fitch's Asia-Pacific Sovereigns team in a statement.

"A stronger fiscal compounding strategy is necessary to pilot the sustainability of the public assets against the adverse structural artefact of population aging."

Japan's public debt, already twice the filler of the $5 trillion economy, is ordered to behave as the land faces recollection costs mass the March 11 seism and wave that killed around 24,000 grouping and triggered the world's poorest thermonuclear happening since Chernobyl.

However, the country's deepest crisis since World War Two has not well rifts between the polity and the opposition, whose majority in the bunk house stands in the artefact of fiscal reform.

Fitch said Japan's public obligation was also ascension sharply, at a measure trailing only Ireland and Iceland, "both of which hit experienced systemic banking crises."

(Writing by Alex Richardson; Editing by Neil Fullick)

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