Journalists in the 1980s and 1990s worried about the death of dollar dominance. Paul Blustein explains why the yen failed to ...

Explore the top reasons why the USD/JPY has dropped this year, making the Japanese yen one of the top gainers in forex this ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba reiterated that Japan isn’t intentionally pushing down the yen’s value to lower the ...

All alternatives have drawbacks that limit their global role. What follows is the story of one such major currency—the Japanese yen—and why it failed to take the dollar’s throne. Kaiseki ...

TOKYO -- Downward pressure on the yen is easing as Japan's policy rate has surpassed Switzerland's for the first time in two years, reducing the appeal of yen carry trades.

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“We are not manipulating currency rates,” Ishiba said in a parliamentary committee Monday. “I don’t think it is something Japan should be doing to believe that it’s better to make ...

The central bank voted to raise its short-term policy rate to 0.5% from 0.25% in January, taking it to the highest level ...

sending the Japanese currency to a fresh low in 34 years. The central bank will continue to guide the uncollateralized overnight call rate--the rate commercial banks charge on loans to each other ...