"Graham Bell"  wrote...
> Hibijibi wrote:
> > Can I clarify this...  You took a regular personal type of check, err,
> > checque, from an American (or Australian?) bank in US dollars and
deposited
> > it into a Japan Citibank Multimoney account as dollars?  Or was it just
a
> > regular Citibank yen account?

> They were all bank checques from US banks, not personal checques. One
> was from the Bank of New York, I can't remember where the others were
> from. I also deposited some US$ American Express corporate gift
> certificates which were accepted as checques. No idea whether they would
> throw up their hands at the sight of a personal checque...
>
> Yes, it was into a Japan Citibank Multimoney account. Normally they put
> it straight into the multimoney account in the original currency, ie US$.
> They just gave me the standard multimoney account deposit form, which
> has a little box for "check" for what is being deposited, as well as the
> currency.
> I imagine you might get a lot more hassle if you didn't have a Citibank
> Japan account, but if you have an account its a standard service.

That's real interesting, thanks for spelling it out.  Then of course, the
question becomes:  once you decide to "download" it into your yen account,
what kind of exchange rate do they give?

more info found here for anyone else interested:
www.citibank.co.jp/en/b_svc/top.html

best
hibijibi