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That does not imply that politicians will abandon the odd intervention, or stop trying to talk the yen down through verbal intervention.

The currency that bore the brunt was the yen. It jumped nearly 60% in a year, undermining Japanese growth.

The statement said the recent 'excessive volatility' of the yen was a threat to the global economy.

That yen battle is far from over, and the fortunes of Japanese exporters like Sony, Honda and Toyota are up in the air as it plays out.

The strong yen that resulted might have had much to do with the subsequent collapse in Japanese exports.

But he said he would support a G7 joint statement on currencies to take the momentum out of the yen's recent rally.

They landed in traditional safe havens like the dollar and yen, which had lost ground to the franc this year as the U.

A second error was that Japan tried to offset the adverse economic effects of a strong yen with over-lax monetary policy.

Mr. Lipsky said the IMF didn't consider the yen overvalued, at least when looking over a three-to-five year time frame.

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Steven Barrow, head of G10 strategy at Standard Bank, said: "The yen is going to be strongest currency in the world. "

The Bank of Japan this week said it would extend the availability of cheap loans to banks, in a bid to push down the yen.

If you need a measure of how much optimism has returned to world markets, look at the yen.

Still some analysts suggested the market may be setting itself up for a disappointment if it continues to expect the yen to strengthen.

Today, a combination of a strong Japanese yen, two natural disasters and strategic missteps, have made them among the most troubled.

Markets responded immediately by driving down the value of the yen against the dollar, reversing almost a week of sharp increases.

The supply of gold is small and constrained, whereas the Bank of Japan can create as much yen as it likes.

But Sakakibara said the yen is headed for further strengthening: to at least to 85 to the dollar, and likely into the low 80s.

The carry trade appears to have been squeezed out of the system by about late November, when the yen and the Vix halted their joint ascent.

The market reaction wasn't too extreme, even if the yen did surge for a bit and oil was as volatile as ever.

While there had been a rebound in the yen and in the stock market, it remained to be seen how sustained these trends would be.

Reflecting the often circular nature of the markets, swoons in stocks around the globe only reinforced the move into yen.

The dollar, which like the yen has recently been gaining against rival currencies, climbed against the euro and the British pound.

The company has been hurt by the weakness of the euro against the yen and said it would raise prices to compensate.

But that will do nothing to stop the rise of the yen now (though it might have an effect later if the economy does recover).

Exactly how much a strong yen affects Japan's overall economy is widely debated.

Fujii said the yen's relentless rise was "one-sided" and "harmful" to the economy.

Investors might have been expected to sell yen as Japan struggles to deal with the impact of an earthquake, a tsunami and a nuclear crisis.

The allied air strikes against Libya are presenting a new challenge for the Bank of Japan in its efforts to stem the rise of the yen.

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Enough talk, I said the yen. Do not felt loss, and so next year's economic upturn, and I will sell at high prices, and to share with you.

Tokyo economists reluctantly concede that the yen must be revalued upward; there is likely to be a 5% revaluation within a year.

In an attempt to frighten traders from buying yen, Mr Azumi said he was prepared to keep going until he was "satisfied" .

Japanese stocks are back in vogue, at least for now, despite lingering worries over dismal economic prospects and the strong yen.

In East Asia, the resulting sharp movement of the yen is often viewed as the beginning of the end of Japan's long post-war boom.

Analysts said the country's export-led recovery appeared to be faltering as the value of the yen appreciates.

He said the yen doesn't reflect 'that Japan's economic and industrial conditions aren't strong enough. '

Until recently, the dollar was one of the most robust currencies around, surging against everything except the Japanese yen.

On this, the United States' 40-year history of pressuring Japan to let the yen appreciate against the dollar is instructive.

Traders are understandably sceptical that the BoJ will be able to keep the yen down in these circumstances.

But the Bank of Japan, after intervening directly to weaken the yen in September, has struck upon a more benign response.

Analysts say the best hope for economic revival seems to be the yen staying weak and helping exporters.

Meanwhile, the company will auction a number of real estate and subsidiaries, at least hope to raise 500 billion yen over the funds.

His Zucca line does well at home, but the escalating yen has kept it out of the export market.

Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda called an evening news conference in which he said that the yen's sharp rise was 'one-sided. '

Japanese companies have been grappling with a strong yen and a faltering global economy, which could undermine vital exports.

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His latest project is a mobile home the size of two tatami mats, made up of DIY assembly parts and with a total cost of 26, 000 yen.

A few years ago, the then Japanese vice-finance minister in charge of all things yen was out with his aide at a Tokyo restaurant.

Once upon a time, when the yen was the most powerful force in the world, the city overflowed with immigrants, like a gold rush boom town.

It isn't clear exactly how much yen Japan injected into currency markets Wednesday, but it will presumably need more than last time.

Elsewhere in Asia the only real mover besides the yen was the Australian Dollar which benefitted from a wave of good economic data.

The next day, Japan unveiled a ¥ 5 trillion ($51 billion) package, much of it supposed to go directly to families and small firms.

The yen has strengthened to near-record levels against the US dollar since the beginning of the global financial crisis.

With exports collapsing, Japan now is part of the global problem. It has become clear that (investors) overpriced the yen for a while.

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Others suggest that, at least in the short term, Japan's larger companies are able to live with the strong yen, despite complaints.

The Bank of Japan called an emergency meeting Aug. 30 to pump more liquidity into the economy, also an attempt to curb the yen's rise.

Analysts said Fukuda's sudden resignation would likely be negative for Japanese shares and a bit of a minus for the yen.

Financial markets did not react much to the data with yen moves swayed more by broad selling pressure on the dollar.

Against the Japanese yen, the euro fell to a four-year low and is now only three-quarters of its value in July.

'If there's one thing everyone agreed upon, it was that 2010 would be the year of yen weakness. '

Helicopters of a different sort could be about to drop huge amounts of currency in a parallel effort to cool Japan's overheated yen.

Monday's action was the fourth time in slightly over a year that Japan has intervened to cap the yen.

In the days since the earthquake, the Bank of Japan has printed trillions of new yen.

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It hopes that this flood of money will push down borrowing costs, cap the yen's rise and help exporters.

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this point, all the German mark was replaced by the yen.

But Japan is the only sovereign issuer of yen bonds, while Greece is the least creditworthy of the many countries offering euro bonds.

In truth, the yen-pain threshold for these companies isn't as low as investors seem to think.

Sharp is one of the first large manufacturers to respond to the yen's strength with a shift in strategy rather than cost cuts alone.

Under the Japanese, the laboring classes had been able to eat fish, eggs and some meat on an average wage of a hundred yen a month.

Indeed, Japan's abnormally low rates could be viewed as a form of intervention to hold down the yen.

But Japan cannot get out of the deflationary mess if the yen keeps strengthening.

Japan has moved to sell trillions of yen in an effort to drive down the price of its currency against those of its major trading partners.

Japan aims to maintain its overall defense-related spending at 23. 39 trillion yen ($280 billion) a year or less over the next five years.

After World War II, U. S. in turn replaced the yen, has been used to this day people of Palau.

Corporate profits are pinched between the forefinger of a strong yen and the thumb of higher energy prices.

Tokyo traders said the election outcome initially sparked unwinding in long yen positions, which rose sharply last week.

A tragic earthquake and a steroidal yen have wreaked havoc on the bottom lines of major firms Honda and Toyota.

A similar outlook holds for the yen, pegged by many analysts to be the only currency set to outperform the dollar in the near term.

An increased supply of yen relative to that of other currencies pushed down its price.

Asian stocks hit lows for this month as Beijing's moves to curb property speculation and the stronger yen continued to weigh on bourses.

A strong yen could hurt Japan's export-led economy as it struggles with slow growth and the aftermath of the March earthquake and tsunami.

Before she realised it, many of her investments had been savaged by the sudden collapse of equity prices and the switchback of the yen.

The danger is that this could lead to a higher yen and a fall in the value of foreign assets as a result of lower demand.

Traders said the 61. 8 percent retracement of the February to April rally was the next support level at 122. 75 yen.

He said that Tokyo Electric Power Co. , or Tepco, has so far prepared 50 billion yen ($600 million) in cash for preliminary compensation.

if it appreciated , this would increase the repayment cost of yen - borrowing and offset the interest differential.

If the Ministry of Finance does order the Bank of Japan to sell yen, it would not be because it is unacceptably strong.

Think about it, do you know of any wealthy acquaintance that has yen-denominated cash deposits?

So with a very strong determination on the part of the Japanese government, any further appreciation of the yen should be stopped.

Advocates noted that the yen- dollar rate had not been so low since 1995 and that the dollar has fallen more than 20 per cent since 2002 .

They feel a push to move ahead with overseas deals, which are advantaged at the moment by the high value of the yen, among other factors.

The dollar fell to 160 from 240 yen over the next two years, but the current-account imbalance between the two countries was unaffected.

Japan felt additional pain as the yen continued to strengthen against the dollar, trading near 13-year highs.

The U. S. dollar and the yen both retained broad gains on uncertainty over the strength of a global economic recovery.

The German trade surplus with the U. S. declined. But even though the value of the yen doubled, Japan's trade surplus surged.

The yen virtually doubled in value within two years of the 1985 Plaza Accord, with little impact on Japanese exports.

But a debased dollar cannot be the explanation as the euro has fallen more against the dollar than the yen.

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Forty years ago, when the yen began to set foot on the road of internationalization, the economy of Japanese is similar to China.

The mines operated up to 1990, until a surging yen and international competition drove operations out of business.

Japan's yen has fallen after Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said he was set to dissolve parliament and hold a snap election.

The Japanese government should take 'all measures available' to keep the yen from appreciating excessively, he said.

The euro is at new highs against the dollar and the yen. Unemployment has fallen to 7%, the lowest since the euro started life in 1999.

The stores in Akihabara that sell models and robots costing several thousand yen are not the only ones that are doing well.

The appreciation of the Japanese yen in the 1980s and 1990s did not do much to reduce Japan's trade surplus, either.

Japanese monetary authorities appeared to have bought dollars and sold yen.

Nevertheless, some currency analysts said demand from China had probably been a driver of yen strength.

The finance minister, Yoshihiko Noda, said he expected the actions to weaken the yen and improve the economy.

That strong demand has been a key factor strengthening the yen in recent weeks, to the frustration of Japanese exporters.

Japan did not have housing or credit bubbles, but the undervalued yen encouraged a bubble of a different sort.

The yen is no longer the attraction it once was; and the idea of the problem-beset euro as a safe haven is frankly a joke.

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The Bank of Japan, unilaterally and with help from G-7 peers, has intervened to weaken the yen.

Historically there has been a close correlation between Japanese investment and the strength of the yen.

The finance minister, Yoshihiko Noda, said he expects the actions to weaken the yen and improve the economy.

The yen may be well known as Asia's best-performing currency against the dollar during the turmoil of the past three months.

That has left exporters, struggling with a strong yen, doing all the heavy lifting.

But analysts are anxious for guidance on whether the strong yen will hurt exporters in the run-up to Christmas.

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Yen strength, in other words, is artificial. Tokyo's intervention is only meant to set things back to their natural order.

"We created a certain image" based on a real person, Mr. Yen said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.

But some analysts disagree, citing a weak government and a strong yen as negative factors.

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So why is the euro rising faster than other freely floating currencies such as the yen or, to a lesser extent, the pound?

The devastating earthquake has caused the yen to shoot up in value, threatening Japan's export sector.

Yen crosses also favored the yen as rumors swirled yet again of a possible Chinese rate hike to help cool the economy.

"There is no fear of potential dominance by the Japanese yen, " he said.

In the case of Japan, has the appreciation of the yen led to a reduction of the current account surplus?

Toyota now expects to make a smaller loss for the year of 200bn yen, compared to the 450bn yen loss it had predicted.

The dollar is zigzagging, falling below the 90 yen mark Friday and testing the depths it plumbed against the euro a year ago.

Japan took more action to try to tackle a strong yen, but without intervening directly in currency markets.

AFTER taking office in September, Hirohisa Fujii, Japan's finance minister, widely let it be known that he was happy with a strong yen.

The yen fell at around the time of the handover from New York to Tokyo trading.

One of those currencies may be the euro. Less heralded than the yen's fall against the dollar, has been its impact on euro strength.

In the late 1990s, when a strong yen made Japan a costly place to make cars, Toyota slashed capacity at home and added production overseas.

The G-7 finance leaders said the yen's recent 'excessive volatility' threatens the global economy and financial system.

Japanese stocks have seen sharp falls in response to the Bank of Japan's attempts to curb the rising yen.

The auto maker is losing $5 billion a year in its home market, and the strong yen has shrunk profits on exports.

"Reaction is basically turning into a spasm of despair, " he added. "In FX, the yen crosses are your real indicator of risk aversion. "

The jump in price might not cause concern in normal times, as the yen has remained within a fairly normal range of its historic value.

The weak yen continued to exert downward pressure on regional currencies.

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For a family of three, these costs add up to around 2 million yen ($25, 000) over two years, according to an estimate by Okinawa prefecture.

The yen has been pushed down in recent months by the highly profitable "carry trade" .

The yen hovers at a 15-year high despite efforts by the Bank of Japan to weaken it by buying up dollars.

But over the next 10 years, the U. S. currency will be supplemented by the yen, the euro and the Chinese yuan as the key currencies.

The Bank of Japan has held an emergency meeting amid growing concern about the surging value of the yen.

Given these limitations, though, it is perhaps not surprising that MoF has so far failed to arrest the yen's fundamental trend.

The dollar has dropped against the Japanese yen, Australian dollar and most Asian currencies since the stock market bottom in March.

U. S. stocks rose as well, as investors cheered the prospect of a bailout deal, boosting the dollar against the yen.

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Traders took his comments as a sign the authorities were not yet ready to act to curb yen strength.

On Monday, the yen rose to 88. 22 to the dollar, its highest level since the beginning of this year.

Although a strong yen hurts exporters , it helps hold down the prices of imports, for such things as oil and food.

Since the summer, foreigners have unwound the yen carry trade with a vengeance, driving the yen up.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - When it comes to weakening the yen, currency speculators are the least of Japan's problems.

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But a deeper concern is the relentless strength of the yen, which hit postwar record highs against the dollar this week.

Before Beijing's announcement, the Japanese yen had been falling sharply amid talk of an early general election in Tokyo.

If the carry trade is now part of a bygone era, so is the weakness of the yen.

"What we [want] to do is shift more of our cost from a yen base to a dollar base, " he said.

Signs of increased Chinese demand for goods helped boost Japanese stocks, which were also benefiting from the yen's drop against the U.

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In an echo of the San Francisco disaster, the repatriation of money by insurers has disrupted the value of the yen.

Yoshihiko Noda, in an unscheduled press conference yesterday, pledged "appropriate action" against the strong yen.

Popular commentator Dennis Gartman pointed out that the yen firmed as the Japanese call money back home to help rebuilding efforts.

As we have previously noted, unilateral efforts by Japanese officials to weaken the yen have had only a short-lived impact.

Low borrowing costs may be welcome news for the Japanese authorities but a stronger yen is not.

With the G7 not just the Bank of Japan now intervening in the yen markets now we expect the Yen to hold above 80 to the dollar.

When the yen peaked a few weeks ago, it had risen on a trade-weighted basis by 48 per cent in barely 18 months.

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If Japan had done all these things, it would have a much better balanced economy today, and the yen's value would not matter nearly so much.

So long as the yen didn't suddenly strengthen , the strategy was a sure-fire winner - and far better if it continued downwards .

Tokyo moved higher for a seventh successive day as a weaker yen aided exporters, although the market lost steam in late afternoon.

The won has also weakened significantly versus the yen, helping to keep Japanese tourists among the top foreign shoppers in the country.

Part of what's keeping the yen high is the flow of funds back into Japan for the payment of insurance claims.

But it now also has to contend with a strong yen, thanks in part to loose monetary policy in the rich world.

Earlier this month, Honda Motor Co. 's president warned that the pumped-up yen could cause the 'hollowing out of Japanese industry. '

Over the next few years, the yen rose against the dollar, and the tide of U. S. imports from Japan receded.

He warned the market not to over-speculation, artificially pushing up the yen exchange rate significantly.

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S. currency fell during New York trading against the U. K. pound, Australian dollar, yen, Swiss franc and euro.

Average daily turnover for yen-dollar trading earlier this year was over $550bn, according to the Bank for International Settlements.

But when asked whether it would cost as much as 20 billion to 30 billion yen, he said that 'it would cost that much. '

Data issued by the Tokyo Financial Exchange shows market participants have been aggressively building bets against the yen.

By comparison, the yen, up about 5% against the dollar before Thursday's intervention, is now barely changed for the year.

Tokyo's economists estimated that TEPCO needs at least 10 trillion yen to deal with the nuclear crisis.

Finance chiefs from the Group of Seven leading nations on Monday issued a statement warning investors against pushing up the yen too much.

Proper anti-deflationary action could have the side-effect of weakening the yen, giving Japanese exporters a much-needed shot in the arm.

Bond yields move inversely to prices. The U. S. dollar fell to a near 15-year low against the yen but rose against the euro.

In the years leading up to the Shanghai Surprise, the yen and the S& P had moved completely independently.

There has been a massive build-up of "short" positions betting on a fall in the the yen.

The yen is beginning to flag, down almost 6 per cent against the dollar since early March.

If it falls further, analysts said it could put markets on alert for official intervention to slow the pace of yen gains.

"It brought home the fact that the yen is not used in this way by others, " notes Yasuo Ota, an editorial writer for Nikkei.

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The yen was strengthening then, too--the result of the coordinated intervention of the Plaza Accord.

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Ask the Japanese, who want China to stop buying their bonds because those purchases are driving up the yen.

That strengthening in the yen threatens to batter Japanese exports at a time when the domestic economy is flirting with recession.

Japan's gold holders may be preparing to cash out of some bullion after the yen's drop has sent domestic prices of the metal soaring.

Japan is too dependent on exports and its priority should be stimulating domestic demand and ending deflation, not cheapening the yen.

The greenback would likely stay above the psychologically key 90 yen mark in this case, he said.

In an apparent response to Japan's intervention and continued worries about Europe, the dollar surged Thursday against the yen and the euro.

Japan's economic performance in the past 20 years has lagged its potential, but I would not blame yen appreciation for this.

The weakening yen could add to that sense of confidence among exporters.

It's tempting to point the finger at Chinese shenanigans as a factor behind the yen's currently inexorable rise against the dollar .

"The latter has shown vocal support in favour of yen-supressing intervention, " he said.

Exporters lead gains in Tokyo on expectations the weaker yen against the U. S. dollar will bolster earnings.

Upbeat data tends to reduce safe-haven demand for the yen.

The yen also traded higher against other major currencies like the euro and the Australian dollar yesterday.

They rallied Friday after the G-7 group of industrialized nations pledged joint action to help Japan by pushing down the value of the yen.

Japan has spent $24bn on unsterilised intervention trying to weaken the yen.

The income surplus was also boosted by higher interest rates overseas and a relatively weak yen.

The yen recovered after an initial knee-jerk reaction to sell the currency drove it to a two-week low against the dollar.

A breakout occurs when a market - any market (Cisco, gold, yen, etc. ) - "breaks through" a recent high or low.

The weak yen and low interest rates have helped companies make record profits, but the money is failing to filter through into pay-packets.

"We haven't seen convincing signs that the yen will substantially weaken and that's bad news for the Japanese economy and share market. "

and the yen's real trade-weighted value is at its lowest for at least 30 years.

Perception that Japanese assets are probably less risky than those in the U. S. may generally be boosting the yen, some economists said.

The yen might not be able to extend its gains against the dollar in the near term.

The U. S. dollar dropped to a 12-year low against the Japanese yen, and also sank to new lows against the euro and other global currencies.

The company will close 40 production facilities worldwide by March 2010 to help save 135b yen this year, said an official from Panasonic.

The yen carry trade has not been the only cheap source of liquidity in recent years.

Nomura said the BOJ could increase the scale of its asset purchases to 8-10 trillion yen.

A strong yen makes Japanese exports more expensive, and could undermine the country's fragile economic recovery.

Currencies and commodities: The dollar rose against the euro, the Japanese yen and the British pound.

The weakness of the dollar also prompted the Bank of Japan to intervene to cap gains in the yen for the first time since 2004.

It has been the region's safe haven as investors pulled out of risky emerging markets and put their money into yen.

If so, more yen selling by the Bank of Japan is surely in the offing.

The yen has long been a favoured funding currency for the carry trade because of Japan's permanently low interest rates.

The British pound, the Japanese yen and the Swiss franc remain minor reserve currencies, as those countries are not major powers.

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In the long term, however, the yen's huge undervaluation means that it will eventually bounce back.

However, as the history of the yen and the Plaza Accord show, devaluation alone will not solve the US's chronic external deficit problem.

Despite the statement, the yen continued to jump.

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The Japanese economy is at a standstill, Japan's government has said, as concerns about the strong yen continue to grow.

A strong yen makes Japanese goods more expensive abroad, hitting exporters' profits.

That makes the yen an ideal hedge on other investments because you don't have to sell those investments to put on the hedge.