Anti-Counterfeiting Measures

• Anti-counterfeiting measures (Series-F notes)
• Anti-counterfeiting measures (Series-E notes)
• Anti-counterfeiting measures (Series-D 2,000 yen note)
• Anti-counterfeiting measures (Series-D (other than 2,000 yen note), Series-C notes)

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

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

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.
　

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.

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.

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

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

“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).

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.

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

In place of watermarking, tactile marks by intaglio printing with a textured feeling are employed to help the visually handicapped distinguish different notes with their fingers.Identifying marks are shaped differently for each type of note in order to make it easier to differentiate between the different notes.

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 Yukichi Fukuzawa, Ichiyo Higuchi, Hideyo Noguchi, and the Shurei Gate in Okinawa; the same portraits and landscape as the ones found on the front of the notes.

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

When seen from different angles, the characters for the denomination “10000”, a design of “日” from “日本銀行” meaning the Bank of Japan, and the image of a cherry tree appear.

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

When the note is tilted, depending on the angle, the characters “千円” or the denomination “1000” produced by pearl printing appear as latent images in the bar on the bottom left of the note.

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

“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).

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.

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

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

In place of watermarking, tactile marks by intaglio printing with a textured feeling are employed to help the visually handicapped distinguish different notes with their fingers.Identifying marks are shaped differently for each type of note in order to make it easier to differentiate between the different notes.

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

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 is watermark of the Shurei Gate in Okinawa; the same landscape as the one found on the front of the note.

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

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

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Watermarks are created by producing variations in the thickness of the paper, and can be either light or shaded. They are combined to pattern banknotes elaborately.
Watermarks also include tactile marks to help the visually impaired people distinguish different denominations.

Image designs of the values and portraits on banknotes are thickly printed to give a notable texture.

Banknote designs are drawn with extremely fine lines. Such fine lines can hardly be replicated by color copy machines, or by ordinary printing equipment or similar devices.

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