On August 7 the Osaka City Mint kicked off the production of commemorative 1,000-yen coins for the upcoming Osaka-Kansai World Expo in 2025. One side of the coin has a full-color image of the man-made ...

There was a huge one-yen coin at booth number 5-06-11 ' Hyakki Yako '. Prototype production is Haya work group. Suddenly two kinds of big one-yen coins are lined up. The one on the left was a 'huge ...

Korean 500-Won Coins Mistaken for Japanese Yen Elderly Japanese Business Owners Suffer Losses as Coins Resemble Each Other in ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. This is a typical one yen coin. In today's exchange rate, it worth less than one U.S. cent ($0.0098, to be exact). But recently, a one yen coin sold ...

The government might ask vending machine makers to improve the capability of sensors in their products to tackle an increasing number of fake 500 yen coin discoveries in Japan, a Finance Ministry ...

"When summer comes/ I remember/ Far-away Oze/ Distant sky ..." go the lyrics of "Natsu no Omoide" (Memories of summer), a 1949 pop number written by Shoko Ema (1913-2005). Evoking images of the scenic ...