THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
June 14, 2022 at 17:48 JST
Monitors show the yen falling past 135 to the dollar at foreign exchange trading company Gaitame.com Co. in Tokyo’s Minato Ward on June 13. (Hiroyuki Yamamoto)
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