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            <title><![CDATA[Japan Should Target 120 Range for Yen, Business Leader Says]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erica Yokoyama]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2024 02:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Japan’s Reserves Tally Likely Too Early to Reflect Intervention]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erica Yokoyama]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2024 00:27:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Japan Tries to Maintain Mystery on Whether it Intervened on Yen]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 22:53:21 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Japan Keeps Traders on Intervention Alert After Yen Pierces 155]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erica Yokoyama]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 02:49:15 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The rate of the yen against the US dollar displayed in the trading room at foreign exchange brokerage Gaitame.com Co. in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, April 25, 2024. The yen weakened beyond 155 per dollar for the first time in more than three decades, fueling risk that the key level may prompt Japan to step into the market.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Japan ‘Very Close’ to Intervention, Former Forex Chief Says]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erica Yokoyama]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 11:15:23 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Japan's Yen Hits a Fresh Three-Decade Low of 154]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erica Yokoyama]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 00:33:14 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Shunichi Suzuki</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Yen Traders Wary of Intervention as Japan Warns Against Drop]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erica Yokoyama]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 23:37:31 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Former FX Chief Says Intervention an Option for Overly Weak Yen]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erica Yokoyama]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 08:16:01 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Takehiko Nakao   Source: Mizuho Research &amp; Technologies </media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ex-Official Who Warned of 2022 Yen Intervention Sounds Alarm]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erica Yokoyama]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2024 09:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Japan FX Chief Calls Yen’s Slump Unusual, Vows to Act if Needed]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-29/japan-fx-chief-calls-yen-s-slump-unusual-vows-to-act-if-needed</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erica Yokoyama]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2024 06:20:43 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Japan’s Currency Chief Warns Against Speculative Moves in Market]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erica Yokoyama]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2024 23:25:34 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A Japanese 10,000-yen banknote arranged in Kyoto, Japan, on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. The contradictions in Japan’s efforts to protect the yen while slowing the pace of rising bond yields are becoming increasingly clear in currency and debt markets.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ex-BOJ Official Sees Chance Pay Results to Prompt March Hike]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erica Yokoyama]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2024 03:00:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[BOJ Rate Hike Risk Revs Up Fiscal Reform Need, LDP Official Says]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-14/boj-rate-hike-risk-revs-up-fiscal-reform-need-ldp-official-says</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erica Yokoyama]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2024 03:00:03 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Yoshihisa Furukawa  Source: Parliament Office of Yoshihisa Furukawa</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[These Will Be the Winners and Losers When Bank of Japan Ditches Negative Rates]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erica Yokoyama]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2024 23:32:30 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A pedestrian in front of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, March. 8, 2023. The Bank of Japan will conclude Governor Haruhiko Kuroda’s final meeting Friday, with global investors remaining on high alert for a surprise parting shot from Kuroda that may jolt financial markets around the world.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Japan’s Capital Spending Jumps as Firms Surprisingly Bullish]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Toru Fujioka]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2024 00:04:02 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ex-BOJ Director Says Interest Rate Liftoff Likely in April, Not March]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Toru Fujioka]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 29 Feb 2024 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Kazuo Momma, executive economist of Mizuho Research &amp; Technologies, in Tokyo, Japan, on Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. Bank of Japan board members will likely discuss whether to tweak forward guidance along with the yield curve control mechanism when they gather later this month, according to Momma, the central bank&apos;s former assistant governor. Photographer: Shoko Takayasu/Bloomberg</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Japan Is at Last Stage of Beating Deflation, Official Says]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Emi Urabe]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 02:20:20 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Japan’s Kanda: MOF Will Take Appropriate Steps on FX as Needed]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erica Yokoyama]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2024 23:08:24 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Japan Union Group Seeks at Least 6% Pay Raise in Bid to Push BOJ Policy]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mia Glass]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mr. JGB Says End of BOJ’s Negative Rate Won’t Set Yields on Fire]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-15/mr-jgb-says-end-of-boj-s-negative-rate-won-t-set-yields-on-fire</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Erica Yokoyama]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2024 01:50:02 GMT</pubDate>
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