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日元最近都贬值成什么样了 :yaoming:

If you have been on holiday to Japan recently (and at this point who hasn’t?), you will have marveled at how affordable everything is. Old hands (by which I mean me) are regularly amazed at the fact that sticker prices have barely budged in 30 years. Are we over-egging the extent of this, we ask each other? Can dinner in the New Otani garden’s teppanyaki restaurant really cost much the same as it did when we were young foreign brokers?

Turns out it can. As a new Mapping the World’s Prices report from Deutsche Bank points out, the sense of cheapness is very real. Renting an apartment in Tokyo will cost you only 25% of the same in New York. Buying one will cost half the price of one in London (though with UK apartment prices in free-fall, that ratio may not hold for long). That’s just the beginning of Japan’s low-cost living: A McDonald’s meal, should you insist on having one, will cost a quarter of the same repast in Tel Aviv. And if you fancy a new iPhone? Get it in Tokyo. It is the b