The article explains that Japan's strong economy, global businesses and large overseas asset holdings do not automatically support the yen, which can still weaken against the dollar. It cites Japan's September export growth in cars, semiconductors and chipmaking equipment and reliance on imported energy as a gap.
Dependence on imported energy and currency weakness shape Japan's import costs and currency-driven purchasing power for feed commodities, though the piece is explanatory rather than a new shock.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.