In Weimar Germany the exchange rate adjusted well before inflation started.
In Zimbabwe the exchange rate collapsed 72% on November 14 1997. After that inflation really started picking up.
I believe the normal case for hyperinflation is that the exchange rate drops first and then the inflation picks up after. The exchange rate reacts quickly while the huge number of prices that make up inflation indexes take longer to adjust.
I expect that Japan will see the Yen exchange rate drop much more before they start getting high inflation.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/japan-inflation-slows-in-october-1417131743
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DeleteThe Yen seems to be going the way my theory predicts for most of the last 3 months. Most of the last 3 months it goes down more in 1 week than the total interest earned for 5 years of holding a 5 year bond (total of 5 years at 0.1% per year being about 1/2%). It is crazy bad to hold JGBs and people are getting out. This means the central bank is printing Yen like crazy to buy JGBs. But this makes the Yen and JGBs even worse. Really seems like the death spiral has started.
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