91.   A weaker yen helps exports by making Japanese products cheaper abroad.

92.   A weaker yen helps Japanese exporters by making their products cheaper overseas and boosting the value of repatriated earnings.

93.   A weaker yen helps Japanese exporting companies by boosting the yen-denominated value of their overseas earnings.

94.   A weaker yen would help Japanese companies by making their products more affordable abroad.

95.   A weaker yen would help the Japanese economy and a weaker mark would be good for the world economy, he said.

96.   Analysts said the weakening Japanese yen also helped dampen the market.

97.   But despite the demand, the relatively stable Japanese yen helped underpin the peso and some other regional currencies.

98.   Economists generally agree that a weaker yen would help Japan stabilize its economy, which as been stagnant for four years.

99.   In the past, U.S. officials have pushed for a higher yen to help reduce such surpluses.

100.   In theory the high yen should help U.S. companies sell their products in Japan.