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RIETI - The dollar, the yen, or the renminbi? Invoicing currency choices by Japanese overseas subsidiaries

The dollar, the yen, or the renminbi? Invoicing currency choices by Japanese overseas subsidiaries For ITO Takatoshi s full bio, For KOIBUCHI Satoshi s full bio, For SATO Kiyotaka s full bio, For SHIMIZU Junko s full bio, For YOSHIMI Taiyo s full bio, The currency a firm chooses to invoice in reveals lessons on the prominence of that currency in the international sphere. This column presents survey data from Japanese overseas subsidiaries, highlighting how the use of Asian currencies has been growing steadily. The authors show that among Asian local currencies, Chinese renminbi and Thai baht are the most used currencies by Japanese subsidiaries. If these countries become increasingly important destination markets for regional countries, local currencies will be used more as trade invoice currency in Asia.

Invoicing currency choices by Japanese overseas subsidiaries

Takatoshi Ito, Satoshi Koibuchi, Kiyotaka Sato, Junko Shimizu Since the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971, Japanese firms’ profits have fluctuated with volatile exchange rate movements. From the early 1970s to the mid-1990s, the yen appreciated steadily, especially after the Plaza Accord in 1985. Japanese exporting firms have had to cope with large fluctuations within a yen appreciation trend. They have adopted various defensive measures. The use of financial instruments such as forward transactions proved to be effective only in the short run. Invoicing exports in yen should protect Japanese exporters’ income, but importers may not agree to the arrangement. Trade conflicts incentivised exporters to set up ‘assembler subsidiaries’ in foreign countries, and this proved to be an effective hedging operation against currency fluctuations. Japanese exporters have developed sophisticated currency risk management methods since the 2000s, when the overseas production rati

FOCUS: Internet hoaxes fan COVID vaccine hesitancy among Japanese youths

FOCUS: Internet hoaxes fan COVID vaccine hesitancy among Japanese youths False claims and misinformation about vaccines on social media are undermining young people s trust in COVID-19 vaccines in Japan, imperiling the government s efforts to finish large-scale inoculations by November as it pursues herd immunity. Myths such as vaccination causes infertility and coronavirus vaccines using messenger RNA change your DNA have been widely spread, and anti-vaccination posts are rampant on Facebook and Twitter. There is absolutely no scientific evidence that the coronavirus vaccines will cause infertility, Taro Kono, the minister in charge of Japan s inoculation effort, said on his blog last month.

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