Japanese-USD exchage rate 1900s-1940

[Coins4Cheese]

Japanese-USD exchage rate 1900's-1940

Hey everyone. I was wondering if someone could show me a chart of the yen rate of pre WWI Japan. I heard that in the 20's, it was 2 yen to the dollar. Is that true?

 

[Montana Jim]

Re: Japanese-USD exchage rate 1900's-1940

Go to this site:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=614042

Download the free abstract (.pdf) from one of the choices - I just read it and it will tell you way more than you want to know.