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The Bank of Japan raised its policy rate to 1.25 percent, but two dissenting votes and inflation data below forecasts drove the yen weaker, signaling market skepticism about sustained tightening.

Japan and the U.S. confirmed coordinated yen-buying intervention, pushing the currency to 155.20, but analysts argue low rates and energy costs will reassert downward pressure without policy shifts.

U.S.-Japan coordinated action compressed bearish positions, but structural carry-trade drivers persist until Bank of Japan accelerates rate hikes.

CFTC data through Aug. 4 shows bearish yen positions cut by roughly half as coordinated U.S.-Japan action stabilized the currency.

An 8-1 vote to hold masks a hawkish inflation warning, joint currency intervention and a two-year yield at its highest level since May 1995.

Japan's currency fell 0.5 percent against the dollar in August, reversing a 3.2 percent July gain, as interest rate differentials and fiscal concerns override official action.

President Trump confirmed the U.S. Treasury purchased between $5 billion and $10 billion in Japanese yen in a coordinated move with Japan's finance ministry to counter yen weakness.

Japan's central bank held its policy rate and upgraded its growth outlook as investors, including Amundi Japan's Hiromi Ishihara, await concrete inflation and wage signals.

The yen's broad decline against major trading partners reflects sustained pressure from global interest rate differentials and the Bank of Japan's ultra-loose policy stance.