Funny experience: being an European guy in a city with an American base means that all the Japanese assume I'm American too. They are quite surprised when they

Funny experience: being an European guy in a city with an American base means that all the Japanese assume I'm American too. They are quite surprised when they find I'm not. Heck, the guys at the city office were shocked when I went there to register my hanko :D Anyway, you are lucky, as the dollar/yen exchange ratio is close to 100, so you can drop or add two zeroes and get a good approximation. For us the euro/yen ratio is around 130, such an approximation would introduce too much error.