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USD/JPY exchange rate 1971–2023. The yen (Japanese: 円, symbol: ¥; code: JPY) is the official currency of Japan.It is the third-most traded currency in the foreign exchange market, after the United States dollar and the euro. [2]
The Japanese occupation also outlawed any use of Hong Kong dollar and set a deadline for exchanging dollars into yen. [citation needed] When the military yen was first introduced on 26 December 1941, the exchange rate between the Hong Kong dollar and the military yen was 2 to 1. However, by October 1942, the rate was changed to 4 to 1.
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1971: The Smithsonian Agreement revalued the yen from 360 to 308 per dollar. 1973–1: The yen was weakened during the energy crisis. 1978: The yen was strengthened to 180 per dollar, resulting in the first endaka. 1979–1984: yen remained between 200–250 per dollar. 1985: The Plaza Accord revalued the yen from 250 to 160 per dollar. 1986 ...
In 1946, following the Second World War, Japan removed the old currency (旧円券) and introduced the "New Yen" (新円券). [1] Meanwhile, American occupation forces used a parallel system, called B yen, from 1945 to 1958. Since then, together with the economic expansion of Japan, the yen has become one of the major currencies of the world. [9]
Yahoo Finance Live’s Jared Blikre discusses the Japanese yen reaching its weakest value versus the U.S. dollar since 1998.
The Plaza Accord was a joint agreement signed on September 22, 1985, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, between France, West Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, to depreciate the U.S. dollar in relation to the French franc, the German Deutsche Mark, the Japanese yen and the British pound sterling by intervening in currency markets.
In the brief time between the 1945 battle of Okinawa and the beginning of the US occupation, the islands went from a currency-free system, relying upon barter and distributions of supplies from the authorities, to the reintroduction of currency with the B yen, the introduction of the new Japanese yen (both "new yen" and "B yen" being used ...