The Man in the High Castle : Can someone explain the currency conversion to me?

I don't know if I missed it or not, but I just want to know how much 100,000 Yen would be in USD. Todays conversion has it around $850.00 I'm just wondering what it's worth in the show.

The "yen" in the show appears to be worth roughly what one would have expected a US dollar to be worth in 1962. The writing staff undoubtedly did this to make it easier for the audience to follow discussions of prices. It is important to remember though, as was discussed in an earlier thread around here on the same subject, that there's no reason to expect currency values on the show to have any relationship with currency values in real life (whether in 1962 or today). In real life, the Japanese yen was pegged to the US dollar after World War II, which obviously would not have happened in the TMitHC timeline.

It could be further added that I don't think the show makes clear whether the "yen" being referred to in the show is actually the Japanese yen itself or if the Pacific States of America uses its own currency that is also referred to as "yen" for shorthand, i.e., "the Pacific States yen" or something like that. (In real life, the Japanese issued special currencies in their occupied territories that were known by a variety of different names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_invasion_money)

As a writer's rule, when dealing with currency in fiction you are best served saving your audience mental mathematics by simply presenting the currency as a 1:1 ratio with current rates.

Go watch Boardwalk Empire. It's a slew of 1920s gangsters slinging around 50 grand like it's pocket change.

What makes me chuckle even more is that people even try to "calculate" what the yen in the show would be based on its value today or say in 1960s I mean it's the same as if you'd try to "calculate" how much value would a tsarist rouble have today if there were no communist revolution in Russia.

The yen on the show might be called the same but it is not the same yen. Even if they use the proper Japanese yen, not some Pacific yen. Currencies are impacted by politics and economic realities too. It's impossible to tell how valuable it is, because we have 0 knowledge about the fiscal policy and events that shaped its value from the show.

yeah yen is two decimals over which means 1000 yen equals about 10 dollars. but you have to factor inflation that never happened, particularly the inflation that happened in the 70's and 80's. so it's that 850 would be like 8500.

Uh no the modern yen is .0085 dollars not "two decimals over".

I'm soo sorry. I suppose you weren't able to grasp what I was saying since I didn't word it right.

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I suppose you weren't able to grasp what I was saying since I didn't word it right.

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Well, I was able to grasp that you're wrong.