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 ...

OSAKA--The Japan Mint plans to soon release special ... which consists of the regular six coins in denominations of 1 through 500 yen. It will retail for 2,500 yen, limited to 50,000 sets.

It's the first change in 40 years for this denomination. The 5,000-yen note changes from writer ... Shibusawa is known as the "father of the modern Japanese economy." He was involved in the ...

while the largest banknote denomination saw a surge, the number of 1,000-yen notes in circulation failed to see a similar increase, declining 0.3 percent at the end of 2020. A Bank of Japan ...