Recently Asahi News reportedly the following:
米軍横田基地に隣接する東京都福生市の商店街約５０店が、米ドルで買い物できるサービスを始めた。約１万人の米兵や家族向けに、英語の旗も掲げた。
輸入雑貨店などが並ぶ街で、円に交換する手間をなくして気軽に来店してもらう。米国人客を増やし「基地のまち」の生きた広告塔になってほしいとの願いがこもる。
最近は急激な円高のため、基地内で買い物をすませる米国人が多いという。このため日本人客にも「海外旅行から持ち帰った米ドルで買い物を」と呼びかけている。
About 50 shops in the shopping street at Fussa City of Tokyo that was adjacent to the U.S. military Yokota base had started service that enabled shopping using the US dollar. The English flag was flied for the 10,000 American soldier and family members. In the street that line up with imported goods general stores, the procedure to exchange for yen was ridded, and thus could come to the store readily. It was full of wishes that it became the advertisement for the "town of the base" that depended on the increasing American customers for survival. It was said that there were a lot of Americans who completed their shopping within the base compound because of the yen's sharp rise against the dollar recently. For that purpose, Japanese guests were also called on "to shop using the US dollar taken home from traveling abroad".
The increase in the value of yen has made retailing business in Japan more difficult.
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