Hibijibi wrote:

> "Graham Bell"  wrote...
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>>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
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>>>it into a Japan Citibank Multimoney account as dollars?  Or was it just
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> a
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>>>regular Citibank yen account?
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> 
>>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.
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> 
> 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?

The exchange rate is whatever rate Citibank happen to have set at the 
time, which usually seems to be about 1 yen more expensive than the 
'official' rate. If doing it by Internet banking, the Citibank rate can 
be checked online..

Graham