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Sendai Bank gifts babies their weight at birth in money upon opening a new bank account
- Krista Rogers
Oct 6, 2026 - Tweet
Having a big baby may be decidedly not fun for the mother, the baby’s first bank account will positively rejoice!
- Japan
- (babies • bank account • birth • child-rearing • finances • Miyagi Prefecture • money • Sendai Bank • weight)
Elderly couple donates 400 million yen to erect Myaku-Myaku statue in Osaka
- Master Blaster
Sep 3, 2026
Multi-million-dollar Myaku-Myaku donation.
- Japan
- (2025 Osaka World Expo • donation • Mascots • money • Myaku-Myaku • Osaka • statues • tower of the sun)
Japanese city abolishes 88th birthday celebratory money gift because people are living longer
- Krista Rogers
Sep 30, 2025
A city’s longstanding tradition is no more as something that’s very good for its residents turns out to be very bad for its budget.
- Japan
- (88 • age milestone • aging population • COK • Keiro no Hi • money • Okazaki • old • respect for the aged day • seniors • society)
Japanese government’s investment alligator mascot missing, possibly in hiding
- Master Blaster
Apr 9, 2025
Followers are demanding crocodile tears.
- Internet, Japan
- (alligators • economy • investing • Mascots • money • NISA • stock market • Tsumitate Wanisa)
Studio Ghibli kashira piggy bank head from Spirited Away will help you save money, the anime way
- Oona McGee
Dec 31, 2024
With guardians like these, nobody will dare touch your money!
- Japan
- (anime • anime merchandise • cute • Donguri Kyowakoku • Kashira • merchandise • money • piggy bank • piggy banks • saving money • Savings • spirited away • Studio Ghibli)
New Japanese banknotes selling online for up to 40 times original value
- Master Blaster
Jul 12, 2024
It’s a good time to get some great deals on… money.
- Japan
- (banknotes • bills • collecting • crazy • funny • money • serial numbers • weird • Yahoo Auctions)
Japan is changing its yen bills soon, so beware of scam artists, government warns
- Casey Baseel
May 24, 2024
New bills go into circulation this summer.
We attempt to buy Starbucks Japan’s 60,000 yen lucky beckoning cat
- Oona McGee
Dec 14, 2023
Manekineko designed to generate prosperity threatens to do the opposite, leaving us with nothing but zekku.
- Japan
- (coffee • COK • Kyoto • money • new year • P.K. Sanjun • Reserve Roastery Tokyo • SNJO • Starbucks • Starbucks Reserve Roastery • Yoshio • Zodiac)
How do young Japanese women spend their hard-earned money to treat themselves?
- Krista Rogers
Aug 25, 2023
The millennial generation of women dishes on how they’ve spent the largest amount of money on themselves as a reward.
Osaka Expo 1,000-yen coins go on sale for the low price of 13,800 yen
- Master Blaster
Aug 12, 2023
It’s a steal any way you look at it.
- Japan
- (2025 Osaka World Expo • coin collecting • Commemorative Coin • crazy • currency • Expo 2025 • money • Osaka City Mint • silver • weird)
Japan considering restricting senior citizens’ access to ATMs
- Master Blaster
Jul 29, 2023
National Police Agency believe it’s for their own good.
- Japan
- (ATMs • banking • COK • crime • fraud • money • ore ore sagi • scammers • scams • scoeity • senior citizens • seniors • yokinfusa)
What it’s like to pray for concert tickets, money, and more at Tokyo’s specialty Fukutoku Shrine
- Krista Rogers
May 30, 2023
Our reporter makes a long journey in the hope that some divine intervention will help her score tickets to her favorite idols’ concert this year.
- Japan
- (COK • concerts • Fukutoku Shrine • Idols • jinja • kami • lottery • Maro • money • Nihonbashi • pray • shinto • SNJO • Tokyo)
10 million yen in cash found garbage, now belongs to city of Sapporo
- Master Blaster
May 6, 2023
The city plans to reuse instead of recycle.
- Japan
- (COK • crazy • garbage • Hokkaido • lost and found • money • Sapporo • trash collection • weird)
What should you do if you have Japanese money that’s been destroyed like this?
- Casey Baseel
Mar 10, 2023
After waiting a year to get her lost wallet back, is all hope lost for our reporter’s 1o,000 yen bill?
- Japan
- (10000 yen bill • COK • crazy • experiment • money • SNJO)
5 million yen in cash found in Otsu City dump
- Master Blaster
Dec 22, 2022
One person’s trash is another’s five million yen.
- Japan
- (crazy • garbage • garbage dumps • lost money • money • trash • weird)
Asahi Breweries to gift its over 3,000 employees with 30,000 yen each to eat out
- Master Blaster
Nov 25, 2022
Christmas is coming early for Asahi Breweries workers.
- Japan
- (Asahi Breweries • beer • business • eating out in Japan • economy • employee satisfaction • money • restaurants)
Japan has stopped printing its current yen bills, Mt. Fuji only element to be retained in new set
- Casey Baseel
Nov 12, 2022
A changing of the yen guard for everything except Japan’s tallest mountain.
- Japan
- (art • cool • culture • Great Wave off Kanagawa • hokusai • money • ukiyo-e • yen • yen bills)
Can you use the fluctuating exchange rate and Japan’s weak yen to make some money? We find out
- Katie Pask
Oct 1, 2022
Our wannabe Wolf of Wall Street attempts to strike it rich with the volatile exchange rates.
- Japan
- (dollars • exchange rate • money • Seiji Nakazawa • SNJO • yen)
Major telecom company to give 200-yen apology payouts to 35M people
- Master Blaster
Aug 1, 2022
Now, don’t go spending it all in one place, folks.
- Japan
- (apology • AU • business • KDDI • mobile phone carriers • money • owabi • telecommunications)
Dedicate your savings to your oshi of choice with this new buildable offertory box
- Krista Rogers
Jul 23, 2022
Pay homage to your favorite character or idol (“oshi”) while building your bank.
- Japan
- (anime character • favorite • fun • idol • money • oshi • oshi offertory box)
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