Japan steps into currency market

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Finance Minister Jun Azumi (C) at the Finance Ministry in Tokyo announces Japan's intervention in the currency market on Oct. 31, 2011, to arrest the yen's rapid appreciation. It was the country's first intervention in about three months.

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