{"id":27725,"date":"2012-12-27T13:24:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T04:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=27725"},"modified":"2012-12-27T13:24:53","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T04:24:53","slug":"cold-japan-big-waves-yendollar-save-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=27725","title":{"rendered":"Cold Japan = Big Waves, Yen\/Dollar, Save Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=27729\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27729\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/121226_161057-480x640.jpg\" alt=\"untitled\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27729\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni want to thank Inaida-san for this beautiful photo of Tokyo!  i&#8217;m guessing this is sunset time?  anyway, within all that concrete offers the best food in the world.  i really miss it already.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=27727\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27727\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-shot-2012-12-27-at-12.39.29-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2012-12-27 at 12.39.29 AM\" width=\"224\" height=\"238\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-27727\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nhey, big north\/west swell tomorrow afternoon, and another one on sunday.  then another one next week.  winter season is here on the north shore of oahu!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=27730\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27730\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Screen-shot-2012-12-27-at-12.46.57-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2012-12-27 at 12.46.57 AM\" width=\"549\" height=\"234\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-27730\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nin the beginning of this year, i remember the yen\/dollar rate being 75 yen\/dollar.  now it&#8217;s up to 85 yen\/dollar.  do you know what that means?  the yen weakened 12% in less than a year.  so if you bought 1 million US dollars a year ago, it would be worth $1,120,000 now.  that&#8217;s $120,000 more or 10,261,200 yen more.  i&#8217;ve been watching the currency exchange market ever since i went to japan 22 years ago.  back then, the exchange rate was 140 yen\/dollar.  if i were a millionaire back then, i&#8217;d be a billionaire now just from the yen\/dollar currency market.  shucks!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=27731\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27731\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/photo5.jpg\" alt=\"photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-27731\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nand last, i might not be a millionaire, but my chickens are already saving me big money!  i&#8217;ll never have to buy eggs from the supermarket again.  it doesn&#8217;t get any more fresh than this.  thank you pepper, peanut, and butter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i want to thank Inaida-san for this beautiful photo of Tokyo! i&#8217;m guessing this is sunset time? anyway, within all that concrete offers the best food in the world. i really miss it already. hey, big north\/west swell tomorrow afternoon, and another one on sunday. then another one next week. winter season is here on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}