The yen pared an advance against the dollar as it emerged that an interview in which Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda dismissed the idea of so-called helicopter money was conducted in June.
The Japanese currency earlier jumped more than 1 percent after, in comments broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Thursday, Kuroda said there was no need or possibility for such a strategy. The interview was conducted on June 17, a BBC spokeswoman said.
