Paul Garber, founder of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, stands with a kite marked with the distinctive shape of a Japanese Zero fighter in the early 1940s.

史密森国家航空航天博物馆创始人保罗·加伯站在那里，手里拿着打上明显的1940年代初日本零式战斗机标志的风筝。

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The same gesture means "money" to the Japanese, "zero" to the French and a vulgarity to Brazilians.

同样的手势对日本人是“钱”的意思，对法国人是“零”的意思，对巴西人是极低俗的手势。

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But Japanese shares yield 2.7% whereas short rates are virtually zero, and the potential is huge when Mrs Watanabe eventually does wade in.

虽然日本的短期利率几乎为零，但股市收益率仍能达到2.7%，而当“渡边太太”涉足股市之际，正是股市潜力无穷之时。

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"We have put ourselves onto a timeline. We are working it through with the Japanese but if they do not come at this agreement to zero, we will initiate that action."

VOA: standard.2010.02.20

Japanese banks borrow at near zero rates locally, and buy up Brazilian bonds internationally.

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Japanese interest rates are already at zero, so loosening monetary policy is the sole measure at the Bank of Japan's disposal.

BBC: A chart of the dollar-yen exchange rate

The Bank of Japan relies on the asset buying program as its main economic policy tool because Japanese interest rates are already near zero percent.

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