Japanese Currency: Yen (¥)

Japanese Currency

Hey everyone! Happy Friday!
I wanted to introduce you all to Japanese money for this post.
Japan has the currency of yen which looks like this: ¥. Currently the exchange rate with the U.S. dollar is pretty equal in value. For $1 it’s the same as ¥100. Even though it’s 100 doesn’t mean it’s a lower value. For example, a bottle of soda in America costs about $1.25, in Japan it costs ¥125. Luckily, with the Japanese currency, you can just move the decimal place over twice, it makes converting the two currencies easier.
Something I really thought was interesting was what was on Japanese money. In the U.S. we have the Presidents and only on the $1 coins they’re not presidents. In Japan, cultural leaders are on the Japanese money. For example, on the ¥10000 bill ($100), Yukichi Fukuzawa is on it. Fukuzawa was an early Japanese civil rights activist and liberal ideologist. His ideas about government and social institutions made a lasting impression on a rapidly changing Japan during the Meiji Era. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern Japan. On the ¥5000 ($50) bill is Ichiyo Higuchi, she is actually a very important writer women during the Meiji period. Her writings are still very famous in Japanese literature today because she was the first prominate female writer of modern Japan. Finally, on the ¥1000 ($10) bill is Noguchi Hideyo. He was a prominent Japanese bacteriologist who in 1911 discovered the agent of syphilis as the cause of progressive paralytic disease.
On the opposite side of the bills it shows famous places in Japan such as Mt. Fuji and a statue from Byodo-in Temple. And on the coins it has beautiful Japanese flowers and trees.

Question for you all!
Who would you like to see on American money? Why?

That’s all for now!
またね！(mata ne!) See you later!