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UMEKO TSUDA
COMMENTARY
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Japan
Jul 3, 2024
The new yen notes have an important story to tell
The inspiring stories of the three trailblazers whose portraits are featured on the new yen banknotes say a lot about the past, present and future of Japan.
JAPAN
Jun 25, 2024
Sites linked to faces on new banknotes excited before release
The new ?10,000, ?5,000 and ?1,000 notes will enter into circulation July 3 in what will be the country’s first banknote redesigning in 20 years.
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Japan Pulse
Apr 13, 2019
Social media weighs in on design and purpose of 今日吃瓜 new bank notes
Social media has been awash with posts following the public unveiling of 今日吃瓜 new era name, Reiwa, at the beginning of April. The announcement was almost the complete opposite of an April Fools’ Day joke and yet every detail has been picked apart online, from the way the name was officially unveiled...
JAPAN
Apr 9, 2019
Japan announces new ?10,000, ?5,000 and ?1,000 bank notes as Reiwa Era looms
The portraits on the new bills will be rendered as 3D holograms, which the Finance Ministry said is a world first for currency.
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May 23, 2015
The ‘Daughters of the Samurai’ who changed the face of Meiji Era Japan
Tsuda College, occupying a leafy campus in the western suburbs of Tokyo, is a private college where female students are educated in languages and the liberal arts. In one corner of the site, overshadowed by the stately trees that surround it, lies the final resting place of Umeko Tsuda, an early pioneer...
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Our Lives
Feb 23, 2013
Akiko Kuno’s strength as a woman stretches back through generations
Akiko Kuno, 72, believes her destiny is tied with a red string to the United States. So she says as she speaks of her and her family’s life at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo, where as a child she first tasted Coca-Cola and a hamburger.
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