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Japan to Take Action against Yen’s Weakening: MOF Official

Masato Kanda, vice finance minister for international affairs
17:47 JST, June 28, 2023
TOKYO (Jiji Press) — Japan will take appropriate responses against the yen’s excessive weakening, Masato Kanda, vice minister of finance for international affairs, suggested Wednesday.
“We will monitor the situation with a high sense of urgency and respond appropriately if there are excessive moves” on the foreign exchange market, Kanda said.
In Tokyo currency trading Wednesday, the dollar briefly rose above ¥144, coming closer to the ¥145 line, above which the U.S. currency was trading when Japanese authorities conducted their first yen-buying, dollar-selling market intervention in about 24 years in September last year.
Caution over possible market intervention by the Japanese government and the Bank of Japan is growing, market sources said.
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