On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 23:17:16 +0900, Bryan Parker
<puntspeedchunk@yahoo.com> wrote:

>An Austrian friend of mine is leaving Japan to
>travel around the world for a year or two and
>she's thinking about leaving her 2,000,000 yen
>savings account just sitting here in her Japanese
>bank account because the yen->kangarubles exchange
>rate is so bad right now.
>
>What should she invest her money in here?

If she wants something relatively stable, I think one of these dollar
or Euro accounts would be nice.

>What's the best way to get that large sum of money
>converted to kangarubles?

Just go to the bank and ask for it to be transferred to your Austrian
bank - should cost about 4,400 yen or so.

Ken