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Japanese government bonds gained on Wednesday pushing the benchmark 10-year yields to the weakest level in five months as the Bank of Japan tries to maintain borrowing costs low offering bonds totaling 800 billion yen. The benchmark 10-year yield slipped one basis point to 0.605% by 11:15 a.m. Tokyo time, while the 5-year bonds yielded at 0.2%, the least since April 12.