{"id":67908,"date":"2026-08-03T02:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/67908\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T02:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:35:06","slug":"us-dollar-weakens-sharply-against-the-japanese-yen-after-market-interventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/67908\/","title":{"rendered":"US dollar weakens sharply against the Japanese yen after market interventions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US dollar weakens sharply against the Japanese yen after market interventions<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/05b175a4-9781-47ba-ad33-403005f8f7ec_1489699438.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"The Associated Press\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">The U.S. dollar weakened sharply Monday against the Japanese yen after U.S. President Donald Trump and Japan\u2019s finance minister confirmed both sides had intervened in markets.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Before late last week, the dollar was trading above 163 yen, touching 40-year highs. After regulators were suspected of stepping in, it fell below 160 yen.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Early Monday, after the official announcement of the intervention, the dollar dropped about 1% to 156.34 yen. That\u2019s a big change for the exchange rate.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The yen&#8217;s prolonged weakness against the dollar has been a source of frustration for Tokyo. Since Japan imports so much of what it consumes, a weak currency pushes prices higher, increasing inflation.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Efforts earlier this year to raise the value of the yen against the dollar did little to budge the exchange rate.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Last week, the U.S. side was suspected of lending a hand. When asked why Washington was helping, Trump said Sunday that \u201cWe have a good relationship with Japan. We\u2019re very strong \u2014- very, very strong financially \u2014 and they are, you know, they have a weakening yen, and they wanted a little bit of help, and we\u2019re always there for Japan. Japan\u2019s been very good to us, with the exception, of course, of Pearl Harbor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">Trump said the U.S. got \u201cfinancial benefit\u201d out of the intervention, calling it a \u201csignal of friendship.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s also good for the world economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">In Tokyo, Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama issued a statement confirming the intervention, saying the finance ministry had purchased yen in coordination with the U.S. Treasury Department.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"8\">The move followed a joint statement last year and \u201ccountered excessive volatility and disorderly movements in the Japanese yen in recent months,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"9\">It added that the ministry would not hesitate to act further if necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US dollar weakens sharply against the Japanese yen after market interventions The U.S. dollar weakened sharply Monday against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44012,41000,44011,12090,6216,4254,13,1303,1049,12468,44007,783,420,44010,8,44008,17,1307,43455,3454,43717,726,3361,180,44009,6625,5436,550,1101,1203],"class_list":["post-67908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-japan","tag-156-34-yen","tag-160-yen","tag-40-year-highs","tag-currency-intervention","tag-currency-markets","tag-dollar","tag-donald-trump","tag-exchange-rate","tag-finance","tag-foreign-exchange","tag-foreign-markets","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international","tag-international-finance","tag-japan","tag-japan-finance-minister","tag-japanese","tag-japanese-yen","tag-jsnd","tag-law","tag-market-intervention","tag-markets","tag-money","tag-politics","tag-regulators","tag-stock-market","tag-stocks","tag-united-states","tag-us-dollar","tag-yen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67908","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=67908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}