Japan’s Finance Ministry’s Vice Finance Minister for Worldwide Affairs Kanda. He’s the official who will instruct the BOJ to intervene, when he judges it essential. Sometimes called Japan’s ‘prime foreign money diplomat’.

• Latest yen strikes are fast.
• Intently watching FX strikes with a excessive sense of urgency.
• Will take acceptable actions if wanted on foreign exchange.
• Able to take motion on foreign exchange anytime 24 hours all yr round identical to pure catastrophe.
• Fast foreign exchange strikes may have opposed affect on financial system.
• Intently speaking with the Financial institution of Japan
• As much as the BOJ to determine financial coverage
• FX strikes appear to be reflecting each fundamentals and speculative strikes
• We understand the yen’s fall by round 10 yen a month as fast
• suggests acceptable responses to weak yen may embody intervention

These feedback are a little bit of a blended bag from Kanda.

These are fairly aggressive:

• Latest yen strikes are fast.
• Able to take motion on foreign exchange anytime 24 hours all yr round identical to pure catastrophe.
• Will take acceptable actions if wanted on foreign exchange.

However this one appears fairly weak (the acknowledgement of transferring with fundamentals):

• FX strikes appear to be reflecting each fundamentals and speculative strikes

USD/JPY is down from round 150.60 to 150.50 on his remarks thus far.