Tokyo -The dollar was under pressure in Asia on Monday after lacklustre US jobs data and exporter selling weighed on the unit.
The greenback fetched ¥98.76 in Tokyo afternoon trade, down from ¥98.89 in New York Friday afternoon and sharply lower from around ¥99.50 in Tokyo on Friday.
The euro bought $1.3274 and ¥131.11 Monday against $1.3279 and ¥131.35 in US trade.
The dollar skidded Friday after the US Labor Department released monthly employment data, which investors watched closely to gather clues about the future direction of the Federal Reserve's monetary-easing programme.
The Fed has said it planned to wind down the stimulus once the economy had cemented a recovery.
The data showed the unemployment rate fell to a four-year low of 7.4% in July from 7.6% in June, but the world's largest economy added only 162 000 jobs during the month, far short of expectations.
Some traders attributed the dollar's decline Monday to the unit failing to creep back over the ¥100 mark, prompting speculators to reduce their bets on a weakening of the yen. Selling demand from Japanese exporters also held back the dollar's advance, they said.
"It looks tough to breach that (¥100) level as exporters are likely to ramp up their sales before their summer holidays (next week)," Osamu Takashima, chief FX strategist at Citigroup Global Markets Japan, said in a note.
The dollar was mostly weaker against other Asia-Pacific currencies.
It slipped to Sg$1.2700 from Sg$1.2761 on Friday, to 43.50 Philippine pesos from 43.61 pesos, to Tw$29.95 from Tw$29.99 and to 1 115.07 from South Korean won from 1 125.65 won.
The greenback also declined to 10 276 Indonesian rupiah from 10 280 rupiah and to 31.34 Thai baht from 31.40 baht. It strengthened to 60.91 Indian rupees from 60.76 rupees.
The Australian dollar eased to 88.76 US cents from 89.07 cents while the Chinese yuan changed hands at ¥16.12 against ¥16.23.