Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!amsnews11.chello.com!multikabel.net!feed20.multikabel.net!news.germany.com!lon-transit.news.telstra.net!lon-spool.news.telstra.net!lon-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: jwb@csse.monash.edu.au Subject: Re: Yen exchange rate Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan References: <459ba6d6$0$16554$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> User-Agent: tin/1.4.5-20010409 ("One More Nightmare") (UNIX) (Linux/2.6.17-1.2142_FC4 (i686)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 20 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:26:24 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 124.191.231.243 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1167855984 124.191.231.243 (Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:26:24 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 07:26:24 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:164904 B Anderson <123@abc.net> dixit: >$1 Australian now buys Y95. I don't if this is my own currency booming >or the $B%(B 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. -- Jim Breen http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/ Clayton School of Information Technology, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia $B%8%`!&%V%j!<%s(B@$B%b%J%7%eBg3X(B