Japan's Financial Services Agency will approve the country's first yen-backed stablecoin this fall, potentially boosting ...

JPYC becomes Japan’s first yen pegged coin which will be backed by Japanese government bonds and through domestic savings.

Analysts tell CNBC that the upcoming elections in Japan, strong growth indicators in the U.S., and still high rate differential between U.S. and Japan is pressuring the Japanese currency.

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.

Japan's Nikkei share average extended their gains from last week to hit a record high on Monday, tracking the Dow Jones's ...

Tokyo spent 9.8 trillion yen ($61 billion) intervening in the foreign exchange market in end-April and early May, after the Japanese currency hit a 34-year low of 160.245 per dollar on April 29.

While the suspected intervention has kept the yen from falling below the psychologically important 160-to-the-dollar line, the Japanese currency has yet to stage a clear rebound. It stood at 156. ...

In US currency terms, the Nikkei 225 Stock Average’s gains this year are around 4%, far short of the S&P 500’s 15% increase. “Investors are increasingly worried about how the weak yen is ...

Now, though, just as Japan’s stock market is entering a new era of strength, its currency has collapsed. The yen briefly touched a 34-year low compared to the U.S. dollar this week.

The Japanese yen is hovering near three-month lows against the U.S. dollar, after hitting 153.18 late Wednesday. In the past, weakness in the Japanese currency has been attributed to 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.