*YEN* Shock

[eytsics]

Originally Posted by Bigalow311

IACE also has good cheap flights.
IACE TRAVEL USA

dude, i don't think everyone on this forum can read the Japanese characters...

[MADE]

Originally Posted by superbike81

Didn't you get money back from the JP GOV though? We got 430,000 yen I think.

Umm not really my wife starts our kids own aCCOUNT and stock pile the money for their.................<IDK. Im expecting to get it back, well at least some. Was 82 yesterday at Community bank. I been looking at getting my PFC tuned and a couple of other things, but it's just discouraging or maybe Im just getting old.

[Bigalow311]

Originally Posted by fliprayzin240sx

Its sad when I get excited with an 82 exchange rate...

LOL, I suppose I should wait until the exhage rate is high so I can convert yen NOW before I depart to JP. I used my CC last trip and I got hit with intl fees.

Originally Posted by eytsics

dude, i don't think everyone on this forum can read the Japanese characters...

There's a link for English written in English.

[dino6192]

Originally Posted by Bigalow311

There's a link for English written in English.

LMAO!!! I love it!!

[fliprayzin240sx]

I am sooooo looking forward to my trip to Sapporo for the Ice Festival in Feb...










NOT!!!

[iStayBroke]

I lived in Misawa too long to get excited about ice...meh
Yen rate still slowly rising?

[dawnattack]

Originally Posted by dino6192

LMAO!!! I love it!!

I guess he didn't see that. Anyway, anybody going to the ice festival? My friend from Tokyo said it will be fun but just bring $$$.

[Toi]

Originally Posted by iStayBroke

I lived in Misawa too long to get excited about ice...meh
Yen rate still slowly rising?

There is no ice here so far, I am beginning to think that the US is getting all the snow hahahaha

[iStayBroke]

Ya I heard it's been a pretty dry winter.

This was posted yesterday:
Dollar Advances as China Interest-Rate Increase Sparks Demand for Safety - Bloomberg

[Bigalow311]

Originally Posted by Toi

There is no ice here so far, I am beginning to think that the US is getting all the snow hahahaha

Two stories on that:

Hampton Roads, VA (where I currently live) received 13" of snow appx 1.5 wks ago. Fortunately, I was away for the holidays in Cali/NV. UNfortunately, Vegas received snow two days after my arrival there. LOL, I can't seem to get away from that frigin cold weather. Anyways, I'm in LA ATM and its cool here but not cold, thank God.

BTW Dawnattack, You in Seal Beach??

[Toi]

Yen is back down to 79 to $1, this is at the banks on base and most places that do exchange like the Japanese Postal Service.......FAIL

[MisawaJason]

I know for a fact, that with my awesome ass luck, the yen rate will go back up to 100/$1 the day after I get home from afghanistan and put my wife on a plane back from her moms house in Aomori to Cali. Bullshit ass yen rate

[Toi]

Originally Posted by MisawaJason

I know for a fact, that with my awesome ass luck, the yen rate will go back up to 100/$1 the day after I get home from afghanistan and put my wife on a plane back from her moms house in Aomori to Cali. Bullshit ass yen rate

Hahaha Yea bro most likely!

[racer98]

china's been fixated on buying up JPY bonds and dont seem to be any end in sight.

[fliprayzin240sx]

81 on base and 81.85 off base...pulled $3k with a quickness and changed that shit off base. Sad thing is, I only got 240,000y. 2.5 years ago...that should would have been 330,000y, almost $100 in difference.

I leave in April...I bet you in May, itll bounce back up to 100y to $1.

[cgtdream]

Those that are good with money are predicting the yes to drop ALOT this year, mostly due to their economy taking a shjit sometime soon...unless they do something to keep themselves afloat like they have been for the past what 5yrs...delyaing the inevitable....

On another note, i suppose that what obama proposed to the japanese Govt, late last year wouldve been a good thing for them....but they denied doing it...oh wells...good for us "hopefully" come a few months for now...

[racer98]

Originally Posted by cgtdream

Those that are good with money are predicting the yes to drop ALOT this year, mostly due to their economy taking a shjit sometime soon...unless they do something to keep themselves afloat like they have been for the past what 5yrs...delyaing the inevitable....

On another note, i suppose that what obama proposed to the japanese Govt, late last year wouldve been a good thing for them....but they denied doing it...oh wells...good for us "hopefully" come a few months for now...

if that is true China is going to continue to keep buying Japanese Bonds and just cripple the export Japanese economy, if so japan will have to start an export currency.


idk, I hope um errrrrrr nevermind


my 2 cents in japan now are worth -1 yen.

[Oilcover]

Originally Posted by racer98

if that is true China is going to continue to keep buying Japanese Bonds and just cripple the export Japanese economy

you forgot "on purpose".

economists are predicting 2% growth this year ... :ghey:

[racer98]

Originally Posted by Oilcover

you forgot "on purpose".

economists are predicting 2% growth this year ... :ghey:

on usa / china or japan ?



I hope japan gets the yen back in order but the BOJ has some very conservative people working there now and have the big task should the yen price go above 100 yen hedge fund people might just start dumping the yen and put it in a area where Japan would be susceptible for takeovers from China, its a double edge sword in this case, still though be happy to see $1=150yen .

[racer98]

either way if anyone finds cheap airfare deals from USA too Japan post them.


1) haneda airport - saving you from the Narita bus ride

2) Narita

3) Osaka

[MisawaJason]

Cheap airfare? Please tell me.

I sent my wife back to her moms house in September right before I left for Afghanistan. $850 non-stop from SFO to Narita on Japan Airlines. Looked around on the net for a return flight for her once I get back home. Roughly $2500 for a non-stop flight

FML

[R@ddy]

I just flew to Narita from lax round trip for



$213
I love working for an airline.

Exchange rate sucked ass though

[Datenshi]

My girlfriend just bought tickets from Canada to back home in Nagoya for 858$ CDN round-trip. She loves the fact that JPY is so high right now, she gets a killing from the money her parents send her while she's going to school. She gets an extra like 100-200$ a month because of it. Doesn't affect me much lol, haven't been there since December last year.

[cgtdream]

Japan Credit Rating Cut by S&P on Absence of Strategy to Curb Debt Levels - Bloomberg

Btw more of what i was talking about....
best line in the article....“

I hope this serves as a warning for the government, they have absolutely no sense of crisis,”

[racer98]

Originally Posted by cgtdream

Japan Credit Rating Cut by S&P on Absence of Strategy to Curb Debt Levels - Bloomberg

Btw more of what i was talking about....
best line in the article....“

It's really complicated on what happened and how to explain it but any one with basic economic understanding should get the point of why it happened, that said japan needs to get the yen into the $1=100/110 range if not the economy will take a hit and really badly but I have a general understanding why the yen is so expensive.