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To: shrinkermd

OMG, when I lived in Japan in 1960 the rate was #3000 yen per dollar.....My parents would give me a $.25 a week allowance and I could exchange it for yen, go off base and spend like a drunk sailor.


3 posted on 11/23/2007 6:19:11 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: vetvetdoug

Surely you meant *360 Yen to the dollar*....?


8 posted on 11/23/2007 6:39:16 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (AmericanInTokyo; Count THIS Freeper as solidly behind DUNCAN HUNTER 2008!!!)
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To: vetvetdoug

Correction. You mean 360 to the dollar...


11 posted on 11/23/2007 7:18:56 PM PST by ONEBYEONE (u)
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To: vetvetdoug

When I came over ( still here ) in 1985 the rate was 280 yen to a dollar .


19 posted on 11/23/2007 9:18:05 PM PST by sushiman
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