Japan plans to issue a new version of banknotes in July next year, updating the pattern after nearly 20 years

June 25th, it is reported that the front of the new version of the 10,000 yen note has a portrait of the industrialist Eiichi Shibusawa, known as the “father of Japanese capitalism”.

The faces of the new 5,000-yen and 1,000-yen banknotes feature the faces of Umeko Tsuda, an educator who strives to improve the status of women, and Shibasaburo Kitasato, a microbiologist who developed a cure for tetanus, respectively. The reverse pattern is also updated, the 10,000-yen banknote adopts the Tokyo Station building, the 5,000-yen and 1,000-yen banknotes use Fujika and Katsushika Hokusai’s Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji respectively.