Social media weighs in on design and purpose of Japan's new bank notes
Social media has been awash with posts following the public unveiling of Japan’s new era name, Reiwa, at the beginning of April. The announcement was almost the complete opposite of an April Fools’ Day joke and yet every detail has been picked apart online, ...
In places where figures made their mark, surprise and joy greet portraits on Japan's new bank notes
People with a historical connection to the new faces chosen for redesigned Japanese bank notes have expressed surprise and joy after the government announced the planned revamp on Tuesday. The new ¥10,000 bill will feature a portrait of industrialist Eiichi Shibusawa, while a picture of ...
Japan announces new ¥10,000, ¥5,000 and ¥1,000 bank notes as Reiwa Era looms
The portraits on the new bills will be rendered as 3D holograms, which the Finance Ministry said is a world first for currency.
The 'Daughters of the Samurai' who changed the face of Meiji Era Japan
Tsuda College, occupying a leafy campus in the western suburbs of Tokyo, is a private college where female students are educated in languages and the liberal arts. In one corner of the site, overshadowed by the stately trees that surround it, lies the final ...
Akiko Kuno's strength as a woman stretches back through generations
Akiko Kuno, 72, believes her destiny is tied with a red string to the United States. So she says as she speaks of her and her family's life at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo, where as a child she first tasted ...
