By Rae Wee SINGAPORE (Reuters) -The yen held steady on Tuesday, ahead of a parliament vote in Japan later in the day that is almost certain to see hardline conservative Sanae Takaichi become the country's first female prime minister. Currencies were mostly rangebound in the early Asian session, with the dollar little changed as an ongoing U.S. government shutdown left investors flying blind on data ahead of next week's Federal Reserve meeting. The yen was last 0.1% stronger at 150.61 per dollar, having fallen slightly in the previous session as investors anticipated that Takaichi's likely premiership – following the backing of the right-wing opposition party Ishin – could boost government spending and muddy the outlook for the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) rate-hike path. "Assuming that we're goin

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