Japanese Currency

[@BangBang-hk4rg]

There used to be a 500 Yen bill. I have one that I picked up when I lived in Japan in the late 1980’s.

[@hiasmars]

thats awesome

[@peacemaker6996]

BatChest

[@elcapitan9141]

@@peacemaker6996 Jesus man, do you expect anyone to understand that in a KZbin shorts comment section? WeirdChamp

[@peacemaker6996]

@@elcapitan9141 :tf: ?

[@theangryarabian1256]

@@peacemaker6996 ???

[@danr1850]

2k yen bill, you can get at the bank just ask. Not that rare, just rare in circulation. similar to the 2$ bill in the US

[@shadeztheone7369]

Hola up they had a 2 dollar bill

[@shuwan4games]

@@shadeztheone7369 yes and they still print them

[@RC-eb1qd]

@@shadeztheone7369 one of my buddies gets some for his birthday every year from his grandma

[@Chief305]

@@shadeztheone7369 yep. I actually won one in 5th grade for getting a "6" on the writing exam.

[@desmondblack6367]

I've got $100 worth of $2.00 bills in a bundle I got from my bank.. just saving em for what ever reason.

[@michaelhansen2818]

That's the best explanation of Japanese currency I've ever heard.

[@derekhofstetler3998]

Today I learnt an Indian rupee is worth more than a yen

[@toxicworld7211]

Exactly how many Japanese currency explanation videos do you watch?

[@michaelhansen2818]

@@toxicworld7211 who said anything about watching any videos? Y'know there are still people who interact with with one another in the real world.

[@toxicworld7211]

@@michaelhansen2818 Lol Didn't mean anything by it. You must be incredibly insecure to get so offended by such a harmless question.

[@michaelhansen2818]

@@toxicworld7211 who said anything about being offended? That's your assumption. And you know what assume means right?

[@zichithefox4781]

Carrying a sack of coins would make me feel medieval, and I'm okay with it. I currently have a small sack of gold dollars, about 70. Mostly cause I liked collecting them and having a small sack of gold coins is cool.

[@xandersmith6619]

You don't say....

[@KlassicCloud]

I'm gonna pull a skyrim random thief "give me all your money"

[@philmickelsonscalves7585]

Fk yeah it’s cool

[@brandonkirto5297]

Awsome I'm so jealous I want to start collecting gold too

[@NitroNinja324]

You MIGHT just be descended from a dragon...

[@canisarcani]

as an american i got to say that theres something viscerally satisfying about paying for products with coins that are worth more than just a mere fraction of the standard currency. its why i love the golden dollars.

[@haydencarlson2861]

It’s basically just American currency without the decimal😂

[@ls200076]

@@haydencarlson2861 Or even better, the Dubai money

[@the-pezinator]

Exactly.

[@DBT1007]

Exactly! Real value is better than artificial value! At least, if it's artificial, make it with metals please. In coins. Like Japan there. Not the paper. Paper is dumb. Make the money feel less valuable Edit: and if we want to be more upgraded, make the digital money. Our bank account is already inside the chip in our ID card. No need for making some bank account anymore. All u got to do is just to reach the 18th age and then make your own ID Card. Done. With that ID card, we can buy and sell things. No need to bring money anymore. And the value also not easily fluctuate. That's the real digital money.

[@cinemacynic980]

As someone who was a cashier at a gas station for years, the visceral feeling I get is of the visions of me gutting people who pay in coins. "Put this on #6" *drops loose change all over the counter and walks out before any of it is counted* Yeah, no, I'd rather a purely barter system than coins as a common currency. I don't ever take my coin change, if it is $0.99 in change, I tell them to give it to the next customer.

[@Xachremos]

“Be prepared to have a lot of change” Canadians: It’s like I was made for this

[@danielmuddasani2194]

Fr tho, my father is always like: " Here take this 20 dollar bill and give me all your change" And I'm always like saying that it's just useless and not fun to have one single bill, which is worth more than a pile of coins.. There's just no good in having bills..

[@brandonsims131]

YUSS

[@lillianahunter1199]

Ay

[@SomeGuy-gc8zs]

A solid, simple explanation. I actually quite like the idea of a non-denominational currency, because it greatly simplifies things, although decimalized currency is still MASSIVELY preferable to the absolute retardation of old British money.

[@TheHortoman]

not just brittish, most old european currencies were not decimal, derived from the roman way of counting money

[@pikachuneoncat6480]

I don't think I even wanna know about British currency. 😖

[@SomeGuy-gc8zs]

@@pikachuneoncat6480 It was what the bongs would call "a right fucking mess." It was as arbitrary in its scaling as the Imperial measurement system.

[@pikachuneoncat6480]

@@SomeGuy-gc8zs Oh, so the people who understand it can't conceptualize other systems easily despite other systems being simpler. Got it.

[@heliveruscalion9124]

@@pikachuneoncat6480 there is four farthings in a pence, twelve pence in a shilling, and twenty shillings in a pound

[@phantasydragon696]

Tbh I got lucky getting stationed at Yokosuka, easy currency to remember. Also having all that change on a duty day was great when you have a vending machine just outside the pier gate. Would like to visit Japan not in a military capacity.

[@phantasydragon696]

@HAROON ROHANI happen visited as a civi, would like to. But when I went places I felt I need to not do anything stupid or embarrassing enough that it would get back to the command and I would end up having consequences.

[@jonny_d13]

I was stationed on a destroyer out of Hawaii. We moored at Yokosuka a lot on our deployments, even spent a good 1.5 weeks while waiting on a prop to get repaired. Spent quite a bit of time in the Honch just outside the main gate. And yes, Japanese vending machines are still the best.

[@andrews6411]

One of the first things I did when I got stationed in Japan was buy a coin purse. Came in clutch so many times

[@einstein1923]

good pun!

[@TehBIGrat]

+1 For the Pun

[@andrews6411]

Guys I have a confession. I wasn't trying to make a pun and honestly I can't even see the pun you me tion. Somebody fill me in lol

[@agnotuz6791]

@@andrews6411 i think its cause clutch can mean to hold something.

[@andrews6411]

@@agnotuz6791 oh sweet thanks for the info

[@alanweiman1521]

Spending money in Japan was a very pleasant experience. As an American I was not used to a cashier being capable of doing basic math. Handed them some small coins and a bill larger than the total and they knew what to do.

[@jay_sooning]

Japanese workers tend to have higher IQs than most other countries

[@dant1x_pandas160]

There’s going to be a new 500 yen coin that they’re going to start minting in November! Regarding 2000 yen bills the most common place to get it is in Okinawa pretty uncommon anywhere else.

[@arizona_iced_out_boy]

Because Japan doesn't print them anymore. But banks in the US for some reason have a ton of them. Okinawa has a lot of american military folks.

[@serene_actual]

This is why I love Marines, efficient in every way... Nice explanation!

[@JennyGormanRitter]

Muscles Are Required Intelligence Not Expected Sorry. Had to do it 🤣

[@Kidnamedfinger564]

@@JennyGormanRitter no you’re right

[@ketriauris]

That makes one of us.

[@cpK054L]

Bruh... in the summer, better to use dollars. In the winter, better to use yens. Reason being... Summer prices 70-80 yens per dollar Winter 120-130 yens per dollar. Lazy bars use the 1 to 100 rule a d you're better off using whichever scales better

[@thinblacknoodles]

Thank you for sharing all this, these are the every day mundane things I love learning about from other countries not just food but really how life is there. This is cool but I would hate to be bogged down with all that change, no wonder they make such beautiful change purses for women

[@Cavemanner]

I met your beefy twin the other day at work. He's a Security Forces guy at Eglin AFB. Some sort of sergeant (not great at reading stripes, my bad) and looked like a duty chief or commander. Wanted so badly to ask if he'd seen your vids lmao.

[@watermonsters1810]

I always forget that cash is used a lot in Japan. Seems weird that cash is becoming nostalgic, now that I use card all the time!

[@Henchman1977]

So thinking about Yen as basically being one penny just made figuring out the cost of Japanese goods A LOT easier... Also is Japan basically still a cash society? Struck me as so odd given how advanced they are in other ways....

[@rajgill7576]

yea man every country needs cash

[@chilledlemonade]

@@rajgill7576 I think they mean that the majority of their transactions are done through cash. In the states, people usually use a card.

[@casey8083]

Because of the honesty of the average Japanese citizen, it's totally normal there to do large transactions in cash. It's common to walk around with large stacks of currency. I've lost money there twice over the years. Once was in an envelope with nothing to identify I owned it and the other time was a wallet with my ID's, credit card, and a slightly significant amount of Yen and various other currencies. Both were turned in to local authorities and returned to me.

[@arizona_iced_out_boy]

They're deceptively advanced...they still use fax machines because boomers won't let go of them. That's to just name an example. Otherwise, yeah it's mostly cash, but a lot of department stores or chains have card options these days. Small restaurants though (which are the majority of restaurants) and even small chains are still cash. I'm pretty sure the card option came around just because of the Olympics and the tourism boom they were expecting.

[@juch3]

@Peppabot 1000 yeah in terms of cashless transactions I think SK and China is still ahead

[@harrylime3.143]

Good info!!! Thank man!🍜🌯🍻

[@triciaabrams8848]

Very informative! I love learning new things about other countries! Thanks for sharing!

[@jaredg447]

That’s dope man

[@LCPLSpanky]

Man I miss Okinawa. Thanks for the fond memory.

[@xxbob9938]

In England there’s four notes £5 £10 £20 £50 and pound coins 10p 5p 20p and 50p

[@gflow1230]

Nice!

[@jamesshaw3230]

Thank you for doing this video. I had no idea. I think it's cool. Is it easy to buy stuff there if you don't know the language?

[@D.b._Lord]

Relatively as they have the card reader and cash teller thing that tells you the amount due, so you just gotta pay.

[@haskyfeer]

I’ve always thought of it as placing a decimal after the first 2 digits, so ¥500 becomes $5.00

[@SleepingSoldier]

Appreciate this info.

[@Black_SoulGem]

This is helpful. Thanks. I've been wanting to visit someday but I've always been worried I wouldn't understand the conversions.

[@Mysasser1]

This is so helpful!!!!!

[@lazypizzaship8911]

That was very informative thank you

[@reneesongs72]

Thank you I really needed a lesson on this. :)

[@savagecuppatea]

Keep up the good work dude

[@gargur3680]

So close to the icelandic currency!!! And I've heard that cost of things is pretty close too!!

[@cylentstoner]

Awesome video man. Thank you for your service

[@Arz2003]

Thanks. Vid will come in handy when I visit Japan 🗾

[@uroborous01]

Things i have wondered about for a while. But never quite got the grasp of. Thank you.

[@monicalouise79]

I've been wondering about their money after watching yr "paying bills " video. Cool info I hope I go to Asia someday

[@monicalouise79]

Japan is still Asia right?! Lol

[@BellaKnowssBestt929]

@@monicalouise79 yep its a part of the asain country, and I hope to go to South Korea one day

[@xx.x7336]

Can u do Korean currency next???

[@Niconicovideo]

There is ¥2000 bill, but it is really rare good luck to find it!!

[@JAK_EDITS.]

More of these culture vids. Super interesting

[@omarreyes8722]

Very useful piece of information 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@mikoyyuy13]

Your explanation of JPY is a lot better and more clear than those Foreign Japanese KZbinrs who lived in japan for years.

[@cryoflip5841]

This is actually very useful thank you

[@paulready8897]

I have a 1 yen coin that is a square, a 100 yen bill, and the 500 yen coin used to be silver. I also remember the 500 yen bills in the 80’s

[@thegame9425]

Interesting and Very Educational, Thanks and please do more videos like this🔥💯❤

[@brandtgill2601]

Ah this why anime characters have coin purses quite often

[@andrewcurtin7003]

I actually found a 100 yen coin in one of the rooms i was cleaning at a hotel. It s really cool having the value explained, its super cool qnd love the pretty flower pattern on the back

[@Osprey1994]

I still have some left over...the equivalents are very rough by the way 1000 yen is more like 9 USD. Also try to pay in exact change, it's respectful. Asking them to break a big bill is rude enough as is in the US, and it's very rude in Japan.

[@johnfritz7222]

Love how he made this video because he had to learn to use a different currency and wants to pass on knowledge. Great guy, hope you're having a wonderful weekend. Thank you. Can you do a video talking about who are on the bills with a little of their history, please?

[@zhangliao8175]

Those are "Series E" notes starting from 2004. The ¥1000 is Noguchi Hideyo, the ¥5000 is Higuchi Ichiyo, and the ¥10000 is Fukuzawa Yukichi. "Series F" notes, which are scheduled to begin in 2024, will look slightly different and have different people depicted on them.

[@jaysonlavern3453]

Ngl this helped a fuck ton, I read a lot of manga and whenever a character spits out some big number I never had any idea how much it was

[@tritesy]

The people on the bills are... 1000 yen - Hideyo Noguchi is a Japanese bacteriologist 5000 yen - Ichiyo Higuchi or Natsu Higuchi was a Japanese writer of short stories in the Meiji Period. 10000 yen - Yukichi Fukuzawa was a Japanese author, writer, teacher, translator, entrepreneur, journalist, and leader who founded Keio University, Jiji-Shinpō and the Institute for Study of Infectious Diseases. Fukuzawa was an early Japanese advocate for reform

[@terryperroit2070]

Learning about currencies!

[@HK-wu7tr]

There are also 2,000 yen bills. The 2,000 yen bill was manufactured for a short period of time from 2000 to 2004, and is so rare that even Japanese people only see it once a year. However, Okinawa Prefecture is an exception, and many 2,000 yen bills are in circulation. This is due to the fact that Okinawa Prefecture is a remote island and is a tourist destination.

[@kaymoment6486]

Thanks for this.

[@tgrumpy]

RAH, thanks for the info!

[@novaalibi]

Also another thing to mention is Japan is still a mostly paper money transaction country. Most people don’t buy onto the credit card concept and prefer paper money. So a lot of cash is used.

[@mystryx7931]

Thanks for your educational videos

[@MattDragonTamer]

The trick is to drop the last two digits and you get your rough comparison value...

[@ak9wolfking391]

Thanks for the lesson may god continue to bless you and which you do

[@HoodRatBass]

Love this i lived in sasebo for 6 years when i was a kid and it was the coolest place ive ever lived

[@RG-wy1ol]

Thanks for making this video

[@magicbeetle2292]

This explains the leveling in jrpgs

[@yukitsuki1412]

It’s common in Japan to have a coin purse. It’s also common to break a 10000¥ on smaller purchases.

[@madelinejones9745]

that was very good breakdown of the yen👍😊

[@AstroSamDev]

Yeah I live in the US, and when talking about yen I just divide by 100 (convert from cents to dollars basically). It's one of the easier foreign currencies to get a somewhat accurate conversion of without using a calculator.

[@Sans-oc1ie]

Japanese and South Korean currency exchange is probably one of the easiest. For yen take off two zeros of the price to get usd and for won take of three zeros

[@samueltheweber]

I once bought about $25 USD in 100 JPY coins for $0.50 USD per coin (at an antique shop), Couldn’t find anymore but I did find some silver 100 yen coins in the same bucket, one with the phoenix on it.

[@threefoudabervy9800]

Thanks so much man i learned a lot from this 🙏

[@expatrocious]

$50.00 is a good way to think of it.

[@Michaelebills]

I have a 1 and 500 Yen bill... They still had some 500 Yen bills still in circulation when I lived there in the mid 1980s.

[@snack4458]

One thing that never made sense to me is, in America all of the notes are the same size and colour. Only the number is different and the face on the bill. Why would you not make it easier to understand by sight with a specific colour for a specific denomination. Europe has this on lock.

[@mr.hamster6459]

Easier to hide what you got fam. If you working a job in the streets. Like taxi, delivery, etc. You can put you one dollar bills on the outside and hide your bigger bills inside. Granted we are in the age of cashless societies. Still a good habit to do since we live in a world full of many individuals you can't trust. My father was a taxi driver who implemented this method alot since he worked in the hood.

[@davidg6489]

I love how cool Japanese money is and easy to convert with your head to the American Dollar

[@11thcenturycrusader31]

Huh, that makes sense why coin purses are so popular there

[@luigiviking3667]

Oh my God thank you for making this I've been wanting to know this for a long time and you actually explain it I don't know how I came across this video but thank you

[@CurveTheRain]

I love countries that have change that are actually worth something!

[@dylanharris5975]

I'd be walking around with one of those leather coin purses from the leprosy days🤣

[@windspank530]

Actual conversion rate aside, an easy way to remember the approx rate is thinking 1 usd is 100 cents is 100 yen, basically shifting the decimal point two to the right. 1.00 usd ~=~ 100.0 jpy

[@20thcenturygamer22]

Decimal? Why that's metric!

[@anthonyjones9868]

Thanks Marine!

[@IzsakJoraszZ9]

The Hungarian Forint is similar in that there's no distinction between like "cents" and "dollars." It's all Forint. So cool the Yin coins still have the holes in them.😎

[@camerond1959]

Why the holes 🕳

[@SmileyAlien]

Bro thank u I was so confused

[@swiggah]

I always did kind of wonder why people carried coin purses around, more than actual wallets.

[@DemMedHornene]

I got some Japanese bills from a bank in my country before going to study in Japan, and I didn't realise how rare the 2000 ¥ was until I'd use both of mine D: I lived there for six months, and the only 2000 ¥ I saw, were the ones all the exchange students brought, lol

[@UA-oo8nj]

This is way easier to understand then Google trying to explain it

[@doxx2265]

Also note, Japan is not exactly onboard with credit/ debit cards. You will need to carry cash for basically everything.

[@gembaasg]

simply and clearly explained and I like it🤔👍🙂

[@piranhaplantX]

Yeah, I always have to explain that the yen isn't worthless because the bills are such high numbers. They just don't have the fractional currency we do at the lower levels. It's like if we cut out dollars and priced everything in cents.

[@SamiTheAnxiousBean]

Today I learned that Yen conversion and My countries currency conversion are the close to the exact same

[@IrishDrunkGaming]

My OCD would murder me trying to scrounge through that cup holder looking for exact change for my coffee

[@MrIdontknowww]

Thank you, im hoping to visit Japan. And hopefully one day move there and this is very beneficial for people who are ignorant of the country and its currency

[@zacharysaunders2717]

I collect foreign currencies so to me this is interesting!!

[@badmonkey2222]

I have a 2000 and 500 yen bill from when i was stationed there in the early 90s.

[@Perfectt852]

Cool now I know how Japan's currency works.

[@joanderson4568]

Thank you for the information and guidance I’m heading over there next year. Now that will be an adventure.

[@user-xq3qx5ko3p]

This is what I needed, people be making it dificul, Thank you so much

[@mr.amazeballs949]

One way to easily convert yen to dollars is to remove the last 2 numbers, this only works on numbers like 4000 or 10000 btw

[@drassault117]

I can’t tell by your pants. It looks like USN pattern. But it’s so dark that it also looks like usmc

[@brqxton8974]

I have one of the 10000 yen bill stamps from the Japanese mint that my grandfather took in ww2. Very cool

[@Zero-The-Hunter]

Info from a Marine/Navy dude, nice

[@iamyou9085]

I remember when I moved to Japan at first, I was so confused with yen, after using usd my whole life

[@carlitosjuarez221]

The way he says yen like Jin. Just grinds my gears 🤣

[@ramix187]

It's not exactly like that but it close enough to make it easy to remember

[@andymejia8572]

Pretty cool info