If you decide to go, please don't forget to bring 100-yen coins. --The Asahi Shimbun ... perspectives on and insights into contemporary Japan and its culture.

OSAKA--The Japan Mint plans to soon release special collector coin sets to commemorate 25 ... coins in denominations of 1, 5, 10, 50, 100 and 500 yen, minted in the second year of Reiwa (2019 ...

Fancy carrying a bag of money around? If you visit Japan and make most of your purchases with cash, you will undoubtedly have an assortment of coins in your wallet when returning home. Although ...

Tokyo, Jan. 28 (Jiji Press)--SBI Shinsei Bank said Tuesday that it will repay by the end of March 100 billion ... some 330 billion yen that were injected into the Japanese bank in the past.

The yen has been weakening once again. The Japanese currency traded at the 142-yen level against the dollar at the beginning of last week, but at one point, the yen fell below 149 against the ...

while the 500 yen coin will be redesigned around 2021. The new 10,000 yen note will feature famed industrialist Eiichi Shibusawa. He was a driver of Japanese industry from the 19th through early ...

OSAKA -- The Japan Mint here announced that a large number of ceramic coins manufactured due to ... One sen is said to be worth 1/100 of a yen (1 yen is around 0.7 cents). According to the mint ...