Two weeks ago, 100 yen was $1.76 AUD.  Currently it’s sitting on $1.55 and seems to be holding steady for now.

Unlike most foreigners living in Japan, I was smart enough to not blow all my salary on booze and hangover cures.   For me in the short-term, god bless this financial crisis.  Two years of savings are (safely?) sitting in my Australian bank account but the only problem is that now I have to wait anxiously for my next payday and may have to borrow a few thousand yen from my girlfriend.

If you’re thinking of traveling to Japan in the near future, forget about it.  For every $100 AUD you bring into the country, you’re only going to see about half of that in Japanese yen.  If you’re like Lupin the Third, a famous animated thief, now may be the best chance you’ll ever get to score big by breaking into a bank.  Don’t worry about the police over here, they just sit in their coban (police box) all day and night sipping coffee and reading porno magazines…useless bloody sods they are.

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