B Anderson <123@abc.net> dixit:
>$1 Australian now buys Y95. I don't if this is my own currency booming 
>or the \xA5 collapsing (or both), but I think Japan is now a budget 
>destination to visit.

>I wonder if it could hit the symbolic $1 = Y100 level?

Maybe. It's nothing to do with the $A - more a case of the Yen
depreciating against other currencies.

When I first went to Japan in 1981 the $A got Y265. The old-timers
reminisced about it being Y400. OTOH I had a colleague many years
ago who grew up pre-war Kobe, and remembers the Yen being on par
with the pound sterling.

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