{"id":14599,"date":"2026-04-30T09:09:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/14599\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:09:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:09:57","slug":"yen-falls-past-160-per-dollar-japan-finance-minister-says-time-for-decisive-action-is-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/14599\/","title":{"rendered":"Yen Falls Past 160 Per Dollar; Japan Finance Minister Says Time for Decisive Action Is Near"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The yen fell past 160 yen per dollar, hitting its weakest level since July 2024, or about one year and nine months.<br \/>\nJapanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said the time for \u201cdecisive action\u201d was near, signaling possible direct foreign-exchange market intervention through dollar selling and yen buying.<br \/>\nJapan\u2019s government and the Bank of Japan previously carried out large-scale market intervention worth about $34.7 billion in July 2024, when the exchange rate climbed to 161.7 yen per dollar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_feedSummaryContent-module-scss-module__B3djzW__newsAnalyticsTitle\">Forecast Trend Report by Period<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Indicator.png\" alt=\"Loading Indicator\" data-hide-on-theme=\"light\" class=\"h-full w-full object-cover\" style=\"animation:var(--animate-spin)\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Indicator-dark.png\" alt=\"Loading Indicator\" data-hide-on-theme=\"dark\" class=\"h-full w-full object-cover\" style=\"animation:var(--animate-spin)\"\/>See more mid- to long-term trend analysis<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/40764fed-244e-47f9-944b-1fba7b8215a4.webp\" alt=\"Photo: Shutterstock\" width=\"646\" role=\"presentation\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Photo: Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>The yen fell past 160 per dollar on April 30, with Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama saying the time for \u201cdecisive action\u201d was near.<\/p>\n<p>Katayama made the remark to reporters, Kyodo News reported. The comment signaled possible direct intervention in the foreign-exchange market through dollar selling and yen buying.<\/p>\n<p>In Tokyo trading, the yen weakened to nearly 160.7 per dollar intraday, its lowest level since July 2024 and the weakest in about one year and nine months.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s government and the Bank of Japan previously carried out large-scale market intervention worth about $34.7 billion in July 2024, when the exchange rate climbed to 161.7 yen per dollar.<\/p>\n<p>Shin Yong-hyun, Hankyung.com reporter, yonghyun@hankyung.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The yen fell past 160 yen per dollar, hitting its weakest level since July 2024, or about one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2670,2664,2674,2662,2663,2669,2668,2666,2665,2667,2673,2671,8,2672],"class_list":{"0":"post-14599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japan","8":"tag-bitcoin","9":"tag-bitcoincommunity","10":"tag-blockchain","11":"tag-bloomingbit","12":"tag-coincommunity","13":"tag-coininfo","14":"tag-coininvest","15":"tag-coinnews","16":"tag-coinreview","17":"tag-coinstats","18":"tag-cryptocurrency","19":"tag-ethereum","20":"tag-japan","21":"tag-solana"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}