Maybe he should try with prices in yen...
Benfords’s law states that for many real-life numbers x, log(x) is uniform.
Converting to another currency using exchange rate E, so that y = E*x, yields log(y) = log(E) + log(x). This corresponds to a shift of the distribution of log(x) and does not change how uniform the distribution is.
However, if the exchange rate varies with prices, then it will matter.