according to the Japanese outlet NHK. The face value of the coins is 1 sen, the equivalent of one-one hundredth of a yen. Today, 1 yen is worth 0.65 cents in USD, less than a penny. Close-up ...

OSAKA--The Japan Mint plans to soon release ... which consists of the regular six coins in denominations of 1 through 500 yen. It will retail for 2,500 yen, limited to 50,000 sets.

When propping up the yen, the dollars come from Japan’s foreign reserves, which puts a limit on its firepower. At the end of November, Japan had $1.08tn in foreign currency. In the interventions ...

The yen has been weakening once again. The Japanese currency traded at the 142 ... The unemployment rate also improved slightly, dropping to 4.1 percent. Wage growth rose by 4 percent year-over ...

The Japan Mint said on Oct. 9 that the earthen coins, never issued due ... despite the 1 sen originally being worth just one-100th of 1 yen. (0.6 cents) Measuring 15 millimeters in diameter ...

The idea being that if the end justifies the means and a weak yen revives Asia’s second-biggest economy, then America wins, too. Even Trump 1.0 looked the other way as Japan, then-led by Trump ...

while the 500 yen coin will be redesigned around 2021. The new 10,000 yen note will feature famed industrialist Eiichi Shibusawa. He was a driver of Japanese industry from the 19th through early ...