On June 25, it was reported that the front of the new 10,000-yen banknote was printed with a portrait of 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 uses the Tokyo Station building, and the 5,000-yen and 1,000-yen banknotes use Fuji Flower and Katsushika Hokusai’s Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji respectively.