Soft currency

Japanese: soft currency(英語表記)softcurrency
Soft currency

…In modern Japan, the issuance of standard and subsidiary coins as minted coins was determined by the Currency Law of 1897, but in 1938, the Provisional Currency Law was enacted separately from the Currency Law, and the current issuance of subsidiary coins is based on this law. In addition, completely different from the meaning of minted coins mentioned above, the terms hard currency and soft currency were used in a specific sense in the international currency issue of the 1950s. At that time, the extent to which each country's currency was actually backed by gold, and the extent to which it was easily exchangeable against the US dollar, which was a powerful key currency with its gold convertibility, were topics of discussion. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "soft currency" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…近代の日本では,鋳貨としての本位貨幣と補助貨幣の発行は,1897年の貨幣法によって定められたが,1938年に貨幣法とは別個に臨時通貨法が制定され,現在の補助貨幣の発行は同法に基づいている。 なお,上述の鋳貨の意味とはまったく別に,hard currency(硬貨),soft currency(軟貨)という用語が,1950年代の国際通貨問題において特定の意味に用いられたことがあった。各国の通貨は実質的にどの程度金に裏づけられていたか,あるいは金交換性を背景に強力な基軸通貨であった米ドルに対してどの程度容易に交換が可能であったか,ということが当時話題になった。…

※「soft currency」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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