Week 1 – – SAKURA

Why has the MYR appreciated against the JPY?

Project Log 00

The period I am going to research is from January 2021 to January 2026.

The reason for it is because it is the post-pandemic recovery period. The period when COVID-19 pandemic ends and the economy start to act normally.

The sites thet I am going to use are

IMF (International Monetary Fund): A highly reputable institution that analyses the global economic situation.

Project Log 01

I decided to research if there is any specific year the Malaysia ringgit appreciated against the Japanese Yen.

I decided to research the chart of the last five years of MYR/JPY rate, January 2021 to January 2026.

↳　I used the site called investing.com because it is the one of the largest investment portal sites, therefore, reliable.

Source: Investing.com

Overall, the appreciation is graduate, and it seems there are particularly no standout changes.

Some noteworthy changes
- In March 2022, appreciated from 27.4 MYR/JPY to 28.9 MYR/JPY
- During period of March to August in 2022, MYR/JPY increased from 27.4 to 31.0.
- The fluctuations (the ups and downs) in the graph from April 2024 to February 2025 have become more pronounced, ranging between 32.0 and 35.0 MYR/JPY.
- Significant increase rate from October 2025 and it continues until now.

I am not be able to know the cause of increase/decrease by only seeing the charts, but I could know the appreciation is continuous, therefore, the general (one of the) cause if appreciation is also something that affects economic continuously.
In addition, I could know a few times that the chats moved notably so there may be some events during these periods of time.