Ministry of Finance doesn't issue 2,000 yen bills

Ministry of Finance Japan does not issue 2,000 yen bills this year. It issued 770 million copies of the bill for the first time in 2000, then in 2003 issued 110 million. However, it would be ten years since it stopped making the new bills.
1.05 billion 10,000 yen bills, 380 million 5,000 yen bills and 1.72 billion 1,000 yen bills will be issued in this financial year.


２千円札、１０年連続で製造せず…財務省　―YOMIURI ONLINE
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Japanese salary in 2012 was the lowest in 22 years

Educational expenses of Japanese family is 1.91M yen

Annual income of Japanese keeps dropping

Japanese educational expenses outside schools

Japanese 20s lose over 20M yen by subscribing for the Welfare Pension

Radio active caesium detected from 0.1% of children in Fukushima

Children take inspection(*image)

Inspection of internal radiation exposure implemented to 5,931 children aged between 4 to 12 in Fukushima from April to June this year revealed that radio active caesium is identified from 6 or 0.1 percent of children.
Among them, three children are from the same family with the highest rate of 615 Bq, caused by eating wild mushrooms.
Restraining vegetables grown outdoors, government's strict regulations for foods and the nation's low food self-supporting ratio have contributed the result, doctors analyses.
Caesium taken inside child's body reduces by half in 30 to 60 days because of metabolism function.


原発事故:福島の子供　セシウム検出０．１％に　―毎日jp
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