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It also comes as the country is dealing with a rising cost of living crisis amid a weakened yen.

This is in keeping with the “Alien” yen for leaving no cat or Newt behind.

Armed with a wad of cash — at a time when $100 converted to yen stretched a long way in Japan — the players set out on their first quest: beer.

The announcement also strengthened the Japanese yen against the US dollar, giving manufacturers more purchasing power to buy the raw materials they need to expand their businesses.

Indeed, the main factor in California’s leapfrogging over Japan was the decline in the yen’s value against the dollar, an artifact of the Bank of Japan’s decision to maintain low, even negative interest rates.