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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
When I came their first, back in '83 it was the same exchange rate. Wish I'd know then what I know now. Could have retired 20 years ago.
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Considering the savings we had to have for our move back to the states, we didn't have much chance to go anywhere or do anything off base.
The exchange rate was 103 cents = 1 yen when we arrived, and 98 cent = 1 yen when we left. We couldn't afford to buy much off base, so if we couldn't get it on base, and we couldn't get anyone to mail it to us, we didn't have it.
The second year we were there was when the mail order catalogs stopped sending to APO FPO boxes. That hurt a lot of people at the time.