I didn't realise it had been five months (yesterday) since I had done one of these.... and two of the major currencies aren't much different to five months ago (despite a presidential election during that time and the fallout of Brexit) - but the Yen is the big mover, climbing 13 yen (about 18%) since June last year, when it was 74 yen to our dollar.

As of today, according to xe.com, these are the current rates for AU$1...

- US$ - 0.7689 (about the same as last October)
- GB£ - 0.6268 (about the same as last October)
- JP¥ - 87.118 (up 8 yen since October)
- EU€ - 0.7168 (up 2 cents since October)
- NZ$ - 1.0995 (up 2 cents since October)

(bank and paypal rates are 2-3% less than the figures above)


Time to do more shopping from Japan then...