10 Yen

The Bank of Japan's series issued around 1930 was produced domestically by the Cabinet Printing Bureau — unusual at the time given that many Asian central banks still relied on European printers for prestige issues. Japan's insistence on in-house production reflected a deliberate policy of printing self-sufficiency that had been building since the Meiji period.

This denomination circulated through a period of acute economic strain: Japan had returned to the gold standard in January 1930, only to abandon it again less than two years later under the pressure of the Great Depression and capital flight. Notes of this type were actively circulating during that whipsaw transition.