Japan's Ministry of Finance will "front-load" the reduction in its supply of 20 year government bonds from January.
The MoF will trim back by 200bn yen of JGBs, citing a reduction in demand from investors with rising interest rates.
Info comes via a Reuters report citing unnamed sources.
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The yen-moving news today was from the BoJ:
Still to come is Ueda's news conference at 0630 GMT:
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Bank of Japan Governor Ueda