11.   A rising dollar boosts the yen value of export earnings.

12.   A weaker yen should also improve export earnings, he said.

13.   A weaker dollar means fewer Swiss francs and German marks when export earnings are brought home.

14.   All Japanese auto companies have seen their export earnings buffeted by a stronger yen and a fragile Japanese economy has lead to weaker-than-expected domestic sales.

15.   Companies that make everything from transportation equipment to electrical and general machines to precision instruments to textiles are seeing their export earnings in yen rise.

16.   Debt payments represent nearly a fifth of government expenditures and about four times its export earnings.

17.   Economists say imported capital goods, largely machinery used in manufacturing, later lead to higher export earnings when output expands.

18.   Electronics and chemical shares led the decline on concern the weaker dollar would erode export earnings.

19.   Export earnings have crashed.

20.   Export earnings are also likely to be hurt as the Brazilian real remains relatively stable against the U.S. dollar and Asian currencies trade a record low rates.