• USD/JPY doesn't look to be going anywhere soon, another quiet Asia day?

• USD/JPY 159.33-39 EBS, between daily Ichimoku tenkan/kijun at 158.90/159.57

• Also between wider 200/100-DMAs at 158.41/159.99, below 160.63-162.51 cloud

• Again heading towards 159.18-24 hourly Ichi cloud, recently good support

• Option expiries today 158.00-50 $2.4 bln, some at 159.50, above from 160.50

• Options themselves do not seem to be a factor today

• JGB-US Treasury rate differentials see 2s @251 bps, 10s heavy @175 bps

• Little in way of news from Jackson Hole, some Fed off'ls hawkish, Sept hike?

• US economic data out yesterday did little to stir FX

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