yen
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Those have included intervening in the currency markets to support the Japanese yen, a move that could in turn reduce pressure on Japan’s government to sell U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Something similar could be under way with Japan’s plans to use an emergency Fed loan facility to raise cash to prop up the yen without having to sell its hoard of Treasurys.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
“We want the yen to be very strong,” CEO Masayuki Omoto said in an interview.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
The economic benefits of a weak yen are less clear now that many Japanese companies have shifted production abroad, partly as a result of the yen’s strength in the 1990s through early 2010s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Clovis people were thought to have a special yen for mammoth: great ambulatory meat lockers.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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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