Finance and Economics；Japanese exchange-rate policy; Weaken, dammit! Japan's policymakers try subtle approaches to cheapen the yen
财经；日本汇率政策；该死，还不贬值！日本政策制定者暗中寻求本币贬值；

With their overnight-lending rates at zero for most of the past decade, the Japanese public long ago stopped caring about interest rates. Instead the yen is their focus. Shoppers may revel in its current strength against the dollar but in the news media, the financial markets and corporate Japan, it is a relentless source of woe. Carlos Ghosn, the boss of Nissan and Renault, publicly lambasts it as a “1,000-pound gorilla” that hurts his ability to sell Japanese cars abroad. Its strength is increasingly becoming a political issue, too.
在过去十年的大部分时间里，日本隔夜拆借利率都为零，日本民众早就对利率失去了兴趣，而日元则成为他们关注的焦点。日元兑美元汇率走强也许是购物者愿意听到的消息，但对于新闻媒体、金融市场和日本企业来说，这却是国内经济低迷的罪魁祸首。日产—雷诺的总裁卡洛斯·戈恩公开斥责日元升值是“一头1000磅的大猩猩”损害了日本汽车在海外市场的竞争力。同时，强势日元也逐渐成为一项政治议题。

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