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(Bloomberg) -- The yen has slumped to a level that leaves it on track for its worst year on record, prompting the strongest warnings to date from senior Japanese government officials aimed at stemming the slide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Saito said he wants to maintain a close dialog across the bondmarket, including with dealers, investors and the BOJ to try andboost trading levels and depth. (Bloomberg) -- Investors should start preparing for a return tonormal Japanese bond trading as the central bank will one daystep back from its debt purchases, according to a seniorgovernment official widely known as Mr. JGB. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Japan's longer-dated bonds are bucking the trend of amodest global debt rally as key local buyers stay away. Longer-dated debt is free from the grasp of the Bank of Japan'scurve-control policy and requires market buyers to contain the rise inyields. [Extracted from the article]

A small tweak to the Bank of Japan's bond purchase plan this week blewup an arbitrage strategy popular with overseas investors known as thebasis trade. (Bloomberg) -- Pockets of Japan's bond market are imploding as thecentral bank battles to keep control of its policy goals and beat backthose betting against it. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda held firm withrock-bottom interest rates, defying an intensifying global wave ofcentral bank tightening and concentrated market pressure on the yen andgovernment bonds. Basis Trade Blowup Adds New Drama to BOJ Fight With Bond Market Late afternoon, the BOJ announced that it would carry out fixed-ratebuying operations of the cheapest-to-deliver securities, which areclosely linked to futures, for an extended period starting Monday. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Overseas funds bought the second-highest amount ofJapanese government bonds on record in June as the spread of thedelta variant of the coronavirus spurred demand for haven assets. Overseas funds bought the second-highest amount of Japanesegovernment bonds on record in June as the spread of the delta variantof the coronavirus spurred demand for haven assets. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- The Bank of Japan cut bond purchases forthe next three months while shifting to aquarterly-buying plan to offer more certainty to markets. "The BOJ appears to want to avoid its own buying beingused as a catalyst to move markets or lead to more priceactions", said Naomi Muguruma, a senior market economistat Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co. in Tokyo.". [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- As Japan's life insurers lay out theirannual strategies this month, traders will be looking forthe answer to one question -- what do some of the world'sbiggest investors plan to do about Treasuries? Furious selling by Japanese funds in Februaryhelped fuel the biggest monthly decline in Treasuriessince 2016, and with benchmark yields close to theirhighest in a year, bond investors are keen to know atwhat levels lifers will become more inclined to buy. [Extracted from the article]