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Banknotes Currently Issued

Series-F 10,000 yen note

F10000


Front sideA portrait of SHIBUSAWA Eiichi , a business leader and entrepreneur of early modern Japan.
Reverse sideA drawing of the red-brick station, a historic landmark and was designated an Important cultural property of Japan.
Size76mm height×160mm width
Date of first issueJul. 3, 2024

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Series-F 5,000 yen note

F5000

Front sideA portrait of TSUDA Umeko, a pioneer of higher education for women in modern Japan.
Reverse sideA drawing of Japanese wisteria flowers (fuji), a popular among people in Japan since ancient times.
Size76mm height × 156mm width
Date of first issueJul. 3, 2024

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Series-F 1,000 yen note

F1000

Front sideA portrait of KITASATO Shibasaburo who developed serum therapy for tetanus and discovered the plague bacillus.
Reverse sideA drawing of Fugaku sanjūrokkei (Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji), a masterpiece by Katsushika Hokusai, an ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period.
Size76mm height × 150mm width
Date of first issueJul. 3, 2024

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Series-D 2,000 yen note

D2000


Front sideA drawing in the pattern of Shurei Gate, the second gate of Shuri Castle in Okinawa.
Reverse sideA design in which explanatory text superimposes an image of “The Bell Cricket”,
from Chapter 38 of The Tale of Genji Scroll, and a portrait of the tale's author, Murasaki Shikibu.
Size76mm height × 154mm width
Date of first issueJul. 19, 2000

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Anti-counterfeiting measures that can be confirmed by touch

Intaglio printing

Notes are printed with ink that rises higher than the ink on older notes, giving them a textured feeling when touched.

Series-F 10,000 Series-F 10,000 yen note

Series-F 5,000 Series-F 5,000 yen note

Series-F 1,000 Series-F 1,000 yen note

Series-D 2,000 Series-D 2,000 yen note

Tactile marks

The tactile mark, shaped with 11 diagonal lines for excellent finger sensitivity, is differently positioned to facilitate easy identification of denominations.

Series-F 10,000 yen note

Series-F 5,000 yen note

Series-F 1,000 yen note

Japanese hiragana character “に” [read as “ni”] in Braille（Series-D 2,000 yen note）

Anti-counterfeiting measures that can be confirmed with watermarks

Watermark and high-definition watermark

Watermarking is a technique to prevent counterfeiting by producing variations in the thickness of the paper. The watermark has sharp and spatial gradation in its image.

There are watermarks of SHIBUSAWA Eiichi, TSUDA Umeko, KITASATO Shibasaburo, and the Shurei Gate in Okinawa; the same portraits and landscape as the ones found on the front of the notes.

In addition to the intricate portrait watermark, finely crafted continuous patterns (high-definition watermark) are applied around the portrait.

Series-F 10,000 yen note

Series-F 5,000 yen note

Series-F 1,000 yen note

Series-D 2,000 yen note

Watermark-bar-pattern

Watermarks in bar patterns are embedded in the paper. When seen against the light, the Series-F 10,000 yen note has 3 bars, the Series-F 5,000 yen note has 2 bars, and the Series-F 1,000 yen note has 1 bar.

Series-F 10,000 yen note

Series-F 5,000 yen note

Series-F 1,000 yen note

Anti-counterfeiting measures that can be confirmed by tilting

3D Hologram

It's the world's first adoption in banknotes. By tilting, the banknote left or right, the three-dimensional portrait rotates, and other designs change depending on the viewing angle.

Series-F 10,000 yen note

Series-F 5,000 yen note

Series-F 1,000 yen note

Latent images

When tilting a note, the denomination “10000”, “5000” and “2000” appears on the front side, and “NIPPON” appears on the reverse side.

Series-F 10,000 yen note

Series-F 5,000 yen note

Series-F 1,000 yen note

Series-D 2,000 yen note

Pearl ink

Not visible from the front, but when tilting a note, a pink pattern emerges at the center of either end of the note.

Series-F 10,000 yen note

Series-F 5,000 yen note

Series-F 1,000 yen note

Series-D 2,000 yen note

Color shifting inks

When tilting a note, the characters for “2000” change color from blue green to purple.

Series-D 2,000 yen note


Anti-counterfeiting measures that can be confirmed with tools

Microprinting

“NIPPONGINKO” is printed in microscript that cannot be easily reproduced on color copy machines.
The letters can be discerned when magnified using a tool such as a loupe (magnifying glass).

Series-F 10,000 yen note

Series-F 5,000 yen note

Series-F 1,000 yen note

Series-D 2,000 yen note

Luminescent ink

When ultraviolet light is shone on a note, the seal of the Governor of the Bank of Japan on the front side, and part of the background pattern on either side, become luminous.

Series-F 10,000 yen note

Series-F 5,000 yen note

Series-F 1,000 yen note

Series-D 2,000 yen note

Others

Various anti-counterfeit measures are used on banknotes, including technologies that make it easy to identify counterfeit notes by sight and touch, as well as technologies that make it difficult to create counterfeit notes using computers and other such equipment. There are also technologies to enhance the counterfeit detection capabilities of cash handling machines (ATMs, vending machines, etc.).
This last technology is to prevent counterfeits that target machines such as the widely available vending machines. In order to ensure that these kinds of counterfeit attempts are identified, the banknotes incorporate measures that make it easy to check the validity of the notes in cash-handling machines.

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