• USD/JPY eased back into its Ichimoku cloud, Asia range 145.13-55 EBS

• Daily Ichimoku cloud between 144.88-145.55 today, thin, sideways

• Follows peek above cloud to 145.77 yesterday in holiday-thinned trading

• USD/JPY managing to stay above 144.88-89 ascending hourly cloud

• Also ascending 100 and 200-HMAs also below at 144.92, 144.61

• Option expiries to help contain spot? Large @145.00, massive @146.00

• No fireworks at Gotobi, pre-weekend Tokyo fix, exporter-importer flows small

• USD seen remaining relatively bid for now on on-going Middle East tensions

• JPY crosses mostly buoyant after slew of as expected central bank stances

• EUR/JPY 167.24-34 EBS, very quiet, despite ECB Villeroy dovish talk

• Large E952 mln option expiries today providing anchor of sorts

• GBP/JPY 195.54-196.03 following as expected BoE hold yesterday

• AUD/JPY 93.97-94.34 and still holding between 93.37 100-HMA, 96.06 200-HMA

• Related comment , also , on Japan CPI

• Comment on BOJ , minutes , MOF-speak

• ECB Villeroy , for more click on [FXBUZ]

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(Haruya Ida is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own)