BY TATSUO ITO AND TAKASHI NAKAMICHI
TOKYO—Japan continued to conduct "stealth" interventions in the currency market after its highly publicized yen-selling campaign on Oct. 31, data released by the Finance Ministry confirmed Tuesday.
In a sign of the government's determination to tackle the strong yen, the data, which provide a daily breakdown of MOF's currency intervention in the last quarter of 2011, showed that the ministry covertly bought dollars for yen from Nov. 1 through Nov. 4.
An official said that the government decided on the stealth intervention as the most effective way to push down the value of the yen.
"We made a judgment that ...
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