On July 3rd 2024, the Japanese Yen Gets a Major Facelift! Learn About the New Series F Banknotes!!
On July 3rd, 2024, the Japanese Yen got a redesign, the first in 20 years! (More below…)
Episode information
GTV 174 “New Money” Season 9 Episode 14
Original Airdate: July 3, 2024
Produced June 26, 2024
Recorded at Butsudan Studios and edited on my 14” MacBook M1 Pro! Edited and produced with Photoshop and Final Cut Pro, all paid for with Gainful Employment™ while riding the train to work and home, back and forth, day after day, and lunch breaks too!
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Transcript
On July 3rd, 2024, Japan got an overhaul of its currency with new designs rolling out for each of its major banknotes, replacing designs that were in circulation for 20 years!
The new bills are redesigned with many new features and reflect a 21st century sensibility to cold hard cash!
If your unfamiliar with the Japanese Yen, there are 3 three main denominations, 1,000, 5,000 and 10,000. These values are unchanged from the previous series of notes.
The 1,000 yen note is blue, and features Shibasaburō Kitasato on the front. He invented tetanus serum therapy and founded the Institute for Infectious Diseases and Kitasato Institute, contributing to many advances in modern medicine.
The back depicts the Ukiyo-e artwork “Under the Great Wave off Kanagawa,” one of the most famous works by artist Katushika Hokusai.
These designs replace the old 1,000 note which featured Hideo Noguchi, a medical pioneer himself.
The 5,000 yen note is purple and features Umeko Tsuda, who devoted her life to the higher education of modern women and found Joshi Eigaku Juku which is now named Tsuda University in her honor.
The back features Japanese wisteria flowers, called Fuji, which have been cherished since ancient times. Fuji have been documented in the two oldest Japanese books, The appear in Kojiki and The Manyoshu as well.
These designs replace the old 5,000 note which featured Ichiyo Higuchi, a poet who lived in the late 19th Century.
The 10,000 yen note is Brown and features Eiichi Shibusawa, who was involved in of the establishment of around 500 businesses during his lifetime and is often called “The father of the modern Japanese economy”
The back depicts Tokyo Station, as it looked when it first opened in 1914. The building is commonly known as the “Red Brick Station.” and Tokyo station itself underwent renovations for its 100th anniversary to recapture the style of the original building.
These designs replace the old 10,000 note which featured Yukichi Fukuzawa, an envoy who travelled extensively around the world after Japan reopened itself to the world in 1853.
These notes employ a number of anti-counterfeiting technologies. 3D holograms are used for the first time, while the designs feature extensive microprinting. The portraits are off center and are combined with a high definition watermark.
The famous faces were chosen not only for the contributions to Japanese society but also because these peoples had been photographed often, with each portrait based on a composite of photos of each person during his or her lifetimes. This makes counterfeiting much more difficult. As the faces seen on the notes don’t actually exist.
The new notes also make changes to assist the visually impaired. The notes feature Arabic and Japanese numbers, in a much lager size than the older designs on the front and on the back. Each note also contain tactile marks that feel different with each denomination. The sizes are also varied: with the 1,000 yen note being the smallest, 5,000 yen slightly bigger and 10,000 yen, the biggest.
23 Comments
DUDE! youtube has not shown me your videos for MONTHS! I'm furious! I immediately turned on the notification bell, but now I have a long list of previous vids to enjoy
Only the pros who can counterfeit Metal Slug AES will be able to counterfeit these bills.
Do the Japanese use polymer bank notes?
Thanks for the vid G! To me the old notes better, I prefer the message of poetry, adventure and healing than the current; adventure capitalism, educational indoctrination, preventative injections.
Its always an interesting story when a government creates art of any kind.
So much more attractive than the ugly plastic bills we have in the UK
Those are some really cool bills, the holograms of the faces remind me of my childhood, when those 3D stickers were in fashion, meanwhile, in the declining West, the tyrannical bureaucrats who govern us, don't stop to pushing harder and harder towards the disappearance of physical money, I hope they never succeed, anyway, this It wouldn't be a problem if the stupid and self-conscious politicians of my country hadn't gotten us into the euro to begin with, damn, how I miss the peseta! 😢
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Reminds me of when the US updated its paper currency (except the $1 bill). I was just a teenager when it happened (which telegraphs how old I am). I work in a store for a living, and every so often I might encounter an older designed bill. I imagine people in Japan are gonna have similar reactions to seeing old currency 30 years from now.
Why is Shigeru Miyamoto on none of the new banknotes! This is a travesty, I tell you!
Thanks for the neat history lesson!
Does it have Mario and Sonic on it?
I love this channel so much!
Something to look forward to when I go in November. Hopefully we can meet up.
Definitely not the video I was expecting from GTV. But very interesting none the less! I will always be interested in learning about all aspects of Japanese history and culture. Well done!
Been waiting for this, can't wait to start seeing them around
I love the idea of putting Hokusai's art on the reverse, I wish they had done that for all of them and not just one! Not a fan of the huge size of the denomination, it looks way off-balance. Maybe it reflects Japan's aging population, in that it needs to be big for them to be able to read it?
Remember that when I went to study in Japan back in 2009, when I exchanged money in my country's bank they gave me a shit ton of 2000 bills, so whenever I had to pay, Japanese people looked slightly confused. Last time I visited in 2020, I still got some of these from my bank.
At least they don't invalidate old banknotes.
Japanese people love cash
So the People on Japanese Yen Dollars are Famous People who lived in Japan in the 19th Century compared to how American Dollars have US Presidents on them
Meanwhile JPY is at its lowest since 1980s. So the joke is on Japan😂
The 1000yen note is awesome with the Great Wave off Kanagawa.