But if Japan starts to intervene directly in global currency markets to ensure a weaker yen, neighboring competitors will respond in kind.

In anticipation of an LDP led government (with the New Komeito Party as a junior coalition partner), financial markets began to move toward a weaker yen.

But Kan stumbled out of the gate by calling, during his first press conference, for a weaker yen a statement that drew an instant rebuke from Hatoyama.

First, it contributes to yen depreciation and dollar appreciation as carry traders switch out of yen.

In anticipation of an LDP led government (with the New Komeito Party as a junior coalition partner), financial markets began to move toward a weaker yen. Japan s stock market reacted favorably as well, rising almost 30 since the vote.

I owe her 100,000 yen.

Kan became finance minister after his predecessor Hirohisa Fujii suddenly resigned, citing ill health. But Kan stumbled out of the gate by calling, during his first press conference, for a weaker yen a statement that drew an instant rebuke from Hatoyama.

He has, say, fifty thousand yen.

This month's salary was 200,000 yen.

The project cost 60 billion yen.

I paid 1,500 yen for this dictionary.

This will cost about 10 thousand yen.

A dollar was worth 200 yen in 1980. Twenty five years later, the exchange rate had strengthened to 110 yen per dollar.

Household balance sheets are weaker.

He had only one hundred yen with him.

In the process, officials are weakening the yen.

So I bought a book at Book Off for 108 yen (about US 1) and there was 4,000 yen (about US 40) inside it.

Globalization thus implies that sovereignty is not only becoming weaker in reality, but that it needs to become weaker.

Can I make a phone call for ten yen?

It cost me 3,000 yen to buy the record.

I have no more than 1,000 yen with me.

It took only a 1000 yen to convince him.

First, it contributes to yen depreciation and dollar appreciation as carry traders switch out of yen. Second, it increases global asset demand, generating asset price inflation.

Weaker economies will also feel the pinch.

Europe s stress tests have been much weaker.

So the Japanese started to intervene to weaken the yen.

But as the yen strengthens, Japan, too, seems to stop growing.

Euro for euro, dollar for dollar, yen for yen energy and carbon taxes have a lower negative impact on a nation s economy, consumption, and jobs than income tax and VAT.

After all, a weaker currency and better trade balance in some countries necessarily implies a stronger currency and a weaker trade balance in others.

For the eurozone, it implies a strong exchange rate vis à vis the dollar (and, by implication, the yen, as the Bank of Japan closely monitors the yen dollar exchange rate).

But if the yen appreciates sharply, as it easily could given Japan s huge current account surplus, some hedge funds will suffer huge capital losses and the yen carry trade will implode.

Now, exports to the US are falling while the yen has strengthened.

The weaker dollar reduces the US standard of living.

External factors are especially important in smaller, weaker countries.

These bridges can protect weaker trees from strong winds.

The owners of wealth may increasingly turn to the yen and gold for safety but the may run into resistance from the authorities sooner in the case of the yen than gold.

Japan has provided loans of 4.3 billion yen for the expansion of the Shihanoukville port in Cambodia and loans of 16.3 billion yen to the Tashguzar Kumkurgan new railway line construction to Uzbekistan.

And, as we have seen, a weaker financial system means a weaker economy, and possibly the need for more emergency money to save it from another catastrophe.

But why was it both the old and the new 1,000 yen bills?

In 2011 it reported revenue of 1.2 trillion yen for the preceding year.

These figures are a good deal weaker than originally stated.

For two decades, expectations that an appreciating yen would restore external balance were repeatedly disappointed. At the time of the December 1971 Smithsonian Agreement, 308 yen to the dollar was supposed to do the trick.

Japan s annual 15 20 trillion yen infrastructure intensive stimulus didn t prevent its lost decade.

At the moment, the most glaring weakness is the so called yen carry trade.

And a weaker dollar is one way of delivering foreign markets.