The 10-year JGB yield was last at 0.465%, after rising as high as 0.480% earlier in the session. It closed at 0.460% on Thursday.
Benchmark 10-year JGB futures trimmed losses, falling 0.26 yen to 147.77, after falling to as low as 147.42.
The BOJ is likely to forgo modifying its YCC policy at the two-day policy meeting, the Nikkei newspaper reported The BOJ will also discuss revising its forward guidance on its future policy path and conduct an examination of its past monetary easing steps, the report said without citing sources.
Since assuming the office, BOJ's new governor Kazuo Ueda repeatedly said it was appropriate to maintain the central bank's ultra-loose monetary policy as inflation has yet to hit 2% as a trend.
(Reporting by Junko Fujita in Tokyo; Editing by Rashmi Aich)