The 1,000 yen note, worth about $6.20, portrays physician and bacteriologist Shibasaburo Kitasato, who was instrumental in the research of tetanus and the bubonic plague. The backs of each of the ...

The 2000 yen note will remain unchanged ... Aso said banknote designs have to be changed every 20 years or so to prevent counterfeiting. He said the changes were announced now because it takes ...

Spartan’s Peter Cardillo says it is likely due to a new bout of unwinding of yen carry trades ... Deutsche Bank’s George Saravelos says in a note. “Developments since the start of the ...

The manufacturing process of the new 10,000-yen ($69.20) banknote was shown to the media at the National Printing Bureau’s Tokyo plant in the capital’s Kita Ward on the same day. The 10,000 ...

TOKYO: Investors have fallen over each other in recent weeks to buy the yen on bets that interest rates are finally about to tip in Japan’s favour. They face a moment of truth as soon as Wednesday.

But Yoshida Kotaro, the chief financial officer at one of Japan's major brokerage firms, Daiwa Securities Group, sounded a cautious note over the yen's excessive depreciation. He said ...