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 photos show the ceramic coin, adorned with ...

According to a survey done by the Bank of Japan, bank notes and coins circulating among homes and businesses had a value of about 123 trillion yen at the end of 2020--by simple arithmetic ...

My favourite lunch was always available for a 500 yen coin ($3.90; £3.10 ... and repeatedly warned that the value of our family home had collapsed in the 1990s, when the property market crashed.

One more fun fact and trivia night answer: The five yen coin is the only Japanese coin to not have a standard number on it; it shows its value (五) in Kanji, the Chinese characters used in Japanese.