{"id":2617,"date":"2023-04-14T22:56:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T14:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mpl.hk\/?p=2617"},"modified":"2023-08-14T11:50:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T03:50:14","slug":"japan-unveils-new-high-security-banknotes-to-be-issued-from-fy2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mpl.hk\/japan-unveils-new-high-security-banknotes-to-be-issued-from-fy2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan unveils new high-security banknotes to be issued from FY2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO &#8211; The Bank of Japan unveiled samples of new high-security banknotes that it will start issuing around the first half of fiscal 2024 to the media on April 14.<\/p>\n<p>The new notes went on display at the Currency Museum in Tokyo&#8217;s Chuo Ward the same day, and will also be displayed at the Bank of Japan Otaru Museum in Japan&#8217;s northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido from April 28.<\/p>\n<p>It is the first time since 2004 that Japan has redesigned its banknotes. The face of the new 10,000-yen note bears an image of industrialist Shibusawa Eiichi (1840-1931), the &#8220;father of capitalism in Japan.&#8221; The 5,000-yen note features female education pioneer Tsuda Umeko (1864-1929), while 1,000-yen notes have Kitasato Shibasaburo (1853-1931), who helped lay the foundations of modern medicine in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The back of the 10,000-yen note depicts the Tokyo Station Marunouchi Building, the 5,000-yen note Japanese wisteria flowers, and the 1,000-yen note the artwork &#8220;Under the Wave off Kanagawa&#8221; from the &#8220;Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji&#8221; by Japanese ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849).<\/p>\n<p>The new notes incorporate the latest anti-counterfeiting technology, including 3D holograms whose appearance changes depending on the angle from which they are viewed, microprinting, luminescent ink and high-definition watermarks. They also implement universal design features such as tactile marks to make it easier to distinguish between each of the notes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Mainichi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO &#038;#82 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-money-service-operators-industrial-news"],"acf":[],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":2617,"zh":6187},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpl.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpl.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpl.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpl.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpl.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mpl.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6177,"href":"https:\/\/mpl.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions\/6177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpl.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpl.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpl.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpl.hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}