Japan issued its first new banknotes in two decades Wednesday, yen packed with 3D hologram technology to fight counterfeiting. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida praised as historic the state-of-the-art ...

On Tuesday, Japanese finance minister Taro Aso announced that Japanese banknotes will be getting a redesign. The new notes are expected to enter circulation around 2024, the first change since 2004.

The 10,000-yen banknotes featuring the portrait of Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931), an entrepreneur and business leader in early modern Japan known as “the father of Japanese capitalism,” were ...

the Bank of Japan, and the National Printing Bureau narrowed down the list of candidates, with the final decision being made by the finance minister. The move to revamp the banknotes was led by ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan began circulating its first new banknotes in 20 years on Wednesday, featuring three-dimensional portraits of the founders of financial and female education institutions in ...