TOKYO -- Japan's 5 yen coin is becoming more expensive to produce amid higher materials prices and an unfavorable exchange rate, raising the possibility that the per-coin production cost will ...
Reports of customers using Korean 500-won coins — worth about 53 yen ($0.36) — as if they were 500-yen coins ($3.40) are ...
FNN reported on the 20th that cases where 500 Korean won coins are mixed into piles of 500 Japanese yen coins at stores in ...
On August 7 the Osaka City Mint kicked off the production of commemorative 1,000-yen coins for the upcoming Osaka-Kansai World Expo in 2025. One side of the coin has a full-color image of the man-made ...
Japan will sell 32,681 gold coins worth "several billion yen" and dating back to 1871, mostly through auctions, the Ministry of Finance said on Friday. Under a plan announced last September, a panel ...