"We've seen some rapid, one-sided moves lately. The government will continue to closely monitor developments in the currency market with a sense of urgency and respond appropriately to excessive moves," Suzuki told a press briefing on the matter.
Suzuki has said with regards to the U.S.-dollar-yen pairing that excess volatility in foreign exchange markets is undesirable and currency moves should be based on economic fundamentals.
Financial authorities' recent warnings about the yen's drop and hints at an intervention into the currency market to address the yen's rapid decline versus the U.S. dollar have curbed the Japanese currency's fall somewhat.
Numerous times in the previous year Japan intervened into the currency market, launching yen-buying operations using U.S. dollars to redress the yen's weakness, with the forays into the market following a series of similar warnings such as those issued by Suzuki recently.
The U.S. Federal Reserve's aggressive interest rate hike policy compared to the Bank of Japan's ultra-easy policy has seen and will likely see the continued widening of the interest rate gap between both countries, with the divergent policies a leading factor in the yen's weakness versus the U.S. dollar.
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