1000 Yen

P#92 spans a fifteen-year emission window, but the note's real significance lies in what it replaced: the immediate postwar occupation-era scrip and the inflationary yen issues that preceded the 1949 Dodge Line stabilization. By 1950, Japan had fixed the yen at 360 to the dollar, and a 1000-yen note represented roughly $2.78 USD — a figure that put it firmly in daily transactional use rather than reserve denomination territory.

The Bank of Japan Printing Bureau produced the entire run domestically, a point worth noting given how many postwar issues from smaller economies went abroad to foreign printers. Watermark security was modest by later standards, and the series was eventually retired as the economy outgrew its design generation.