New notes to be issued in Nov.

New notes to be issued in Nov.

TOKYO, Japan - The Japanese Finance Ministry plans to issue three kinds of new notes in November using forgery prevention technology. The 10,000 yen note (top) features Yukichi Fukuzawa (1835-1901), educator, writer and propagator of Western knowledge in the Meiji period (1868-1912), the 5,000 yen note (middle) Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896), female writer of the Meiji period, and the 1,000 yen note (below) Hideyo Noguchi (1876-1928), bacteriologist.

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