It's been a while since I took a good look at the exchange rate between the U.S. Dollar and the Japanese Yen.
Unfortunately, things haven't improved much.
Today's rate (per the Universal Currency Converter) is:
1 USD = 92.6710 JPY / 1 JPY = 0.0107909 USD
The dollar is still weak against the yen and I foresee no signs of real improvement.
My last trip to Japan (in April 2007) I received 116 yen for every dollar exchanged.
In 2007, I exchanged $1,500 for yen and I received 174,000 yen. Today, $1,500 would only get a traveler 139,006 yen. That's a difference of 34,994 yen (roughly a $350 loss of value). In other words, I'd have to exchange $1,850 to get the same amount of yen as I did in 2007.
Regardless of the situation with the exchange rates, I am contemplating a visit to Japan either this summer or fall to gather more material for possible future editions of The Monster Movie Fan's Guide To Japan.
Maybe the exchange rate will improve a tad, especially if the GOP re-takes Capitiol Hill and repairs the damage caused by the Democrats. We shall see.
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