61.   The yen is weaker and exporters are booming.

62.   The yen is weaker and exports are booming.

63.   The yen to gamble is a personal weakness, but state-sponsored gambling is a banana-republic abomination that undermines national values.

64.   There are some grounds for this, but only if the yen were in free-fall rather than in a fairly steady slide.

65.   The weak yen could be high on their agenda.

66.   The yen is strong because traders are speculating the Bank of Japan will raise interest rates soon to prevent inflation from accelerating.

67.   This selling snowballed, forcing others to sell and all of a sudden the yen was too strong, not too weak.

68.   Traders said even without the announcement by the Finance Ministry, the yen was poised to weaken.

69.   Usually, a weaker yen can be helpful to the market because it is considered good for Japanese export industries.

70.   While the overall trade surplus declined when measured in yen, it has not decreased when measured in dollars because each yen is worth more in dollars now.