1 a strong feeling of wanting or wishing for something:
I have a yen for travelling.
4 the value of the yen compared to the value of currencies of other countries:
This, the respected bureaucrat suggested, would save nearly 40 million yen in expenditures.
This might suggest that the calculation of the poverty line at 25 yen was favourable to the poor.
The orders, it says, amounted to 352,819 million yen, an increase of 24.9% and exceeding the 1994 sales.
A domestic weaver could contribute a maximum of 41.588 yen + her wages and extra income + to her family each year.
Hence, if she left home to work as a domestic servant, her family would obtain 127.75 yen per year as extra income.
Between 1980 and 1991, the operation costs of grant-supported projects fluctuated between 80 and 90 trillion yen.
With regard to the level of the allowance, it was 3,000 yen per month when the payment started in 1972.
Two trillion yen were cut from the distribution of the local allocation tax and the reserves of public works.
