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Japan’s new yen notes have a story to tell
The world’s most traded currencies have nothing fresh to say about their nation, but these banknotes are bucking that trend.
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Japan's banknotes today are the country's first redesigned ones in 20 years.
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Gearoid Reidy
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Considering the yen’s value these days, visitors to Japan are probably spending their cash so quickly that they are not stopping to examine it too carefully.
But its banknotes say a surprising amount about the country. And on July 3, for the first time in four decades, Japan had an entirely new series of bills featuring a trio of 19th- and early 20th-century intellectual and cultural titans.
