Catalog
| Issuer | Bank of Japan |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Reference(s) | P#107, TBB#368, JNDA#11-88 |
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| Obverse lettering | 千円 日本銀行券 AA000000AA 1000 日本銀行 Bank of Japan 之総 北里 柴三郎 印裁 AA000000AA 1000 国立印刷局製造 (Translation: Thousand yen Bank of Japan note Bank of Japan Kitasato Shibasaburō Seal of the Governor Manufactured by the National Printing Bureau) |
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| Protection description | Kitasato Shibasaburō's portrait facing slightly left, incorporating high-definition fine-line patterns; one vertical security thread embedded to the right of the main portrait; 3D hologram patch at the lower left of the obverse with a colour-shifting portrait of Kitasato Shibasaburō. |
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The 2024 series marks Japan's first full banknote redesign since 2004, and the first time the National Printing Bureau incorporated a 3D hologram strip of this type into a yen note — a move driven largely by increasingly sophisticated domestic counterfeiting detected in the preceding decade. The printing bureau had been developing the new security substrate for several years before the July 2024 release date was confirmed.
Despite the redesign, the 1000 yen note retains cotton fiber substrate, consistent with every Bank of Japan note issued since the postwar reconstruction series.