yen
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And Carol Kong at Commonwealth Bank of Australia said the yen could benefit further if the tech trade continued to deteriorate.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
The WSJ dollar index edged lower as the greenback strengthened against the euro, but fell sharply against the Japanese yen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Its baseline goal is for a monthly salary of 360,000 yen, or about $2,300, for a 35-year-old worker and 340,000 yen for a 30-year-old.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
After "two or three hours" on the machines, Chiaki Sugai, a 56-year-old sushi restaurant employee, pushes a huge cart filled with trophies which cost her nearly 8,000 yen.
From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026
Probably he had some endearing trait: he whistled, offkey, in the shower, he had a yen for truffles, he called his dog Liebchen and made it sit up for little pieces of raw steak.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
On the currency front, the yen weakened 0.1% against the dollar to 155.67 yens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
Mr. Zorn’s way of presenting “Masada” — a project he first introduced 25 years ago — submits the material fully to the yens of its many performers.
From New York Times ● Mar. 16, 2018
But nowadays, for U.S. sportsmen with low budgets and yens for high adventure, there's Costa Rica right next door.
From Time Magazine Archive
The typical buyer is a fast tracker between 35 and 40 who yens for something more than an "off the peg" Hatteras 61-footer.
From Time Magazine Archive
The volume of our commerce has risen from a few millions to six or seven hundred million yens in less than forty years.
From A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues by Baron Kencho Suyematsu
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