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FX traders wonder when Tokyo will support the yen

Currency continues to fall but investors hope for assisted rebound.

The yen has tumbled well past levels touted as red lines for Japan and at a pace that has traders asking when authorities might start buying the currency to support it — and why they haven’t done so already.

The yen fell past 160 per dollar for the first time since 1990 on Monday in

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