As the two coins became even more similar over the years in terms of material and images (the 50-yen coin has a chrysanthemum whereas the 100-yen coin has a sakura), that little hole has become even ...

Learn why you'll want to pay attention to the loose change you receive when paying with cash in Japan and explore the significance of small denomination coins.

Taxes also had to be paid in coins. The hole in the center, which now is cut in only the 5- and 50-yen coins, has several purposes.

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 in Japan for the price of a car. Why? Well, it ...

If they want the yen to be worth 106Y/$ in the year 2048, they need to get Japanese interest rates up to 3.17% on 30-year Japanese government bonds.

The yen hit a two-month high in the upper 151 range against the U.S. dollar Thursday in Tokyo, as speculation grows that the Bank of Japan could further raise interest rates sooner than expected.

Tokoru , 15,000 yen) lined up in the same booth. 'Huge 1-yen coin' is also quite big, but 'Kusso-huge 1-yen coin' is just called 'Kusso-huge', and it looks like a lid of a pot.

TOKYO -- A new 500-yen coin designed to be difficult to counterfeit began circulating Tuesday. Some 200 million coins were issued on the day and a total of 800 million are expected to be in ...

Taxes also had to be paid in coins. The hole in the center, now cut in only the 5- and 50-yen coins, has several purposes.