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New update 2025.10.08 12:32
Japan's LDP postpones Diet session amid coalition deadlock with Komeito

update 2025.10.08 12:32

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) decided to postpone the start of an extraordinary Diet session to October 20 or later. The delay follows failed talks between new LDP leader Sanae Takaichi and Komeito chief Tetsuo Saito on maintaining their long-standing governing partnership and shows political uncertainty in Japan as efforts to renew its coalition with Komeito remain stalled.

Takaichi and Saito met in parliament on Tuesday but could not reach an agreement, opting instead to continue negotiations in the coming days.

Market reaction

 As of writing, the USD/JPY pair was up 0.40% on the day at 152.50.

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One of the Bank of Japan's mandates is currency control, so its moves are key for the Yen. The BoJ has directly intervened in currency markets sometimes, generally to lower the value of the Yen, although it refrains from doing it often due to political concerns of its main trading partners. The BoJ ultra-loose monetary policy between 2013 and 2024 caused the Yen to depreciate against its main currency peers due to an increasing policy divergence between the Bank of Japan and other main central banks. More recently, the gradually unwinding of this ultra-loose policy has given some support to the Yen.

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