On December 13th, 2021, the chief priest of Kyoto’s famous Kiyomizudera temple wrote down the kanji character kin 金 which means “gold” or “money” as…

Despite having a personal wealth of several billion, the creator of the online clothing company Zozo inc. Yusaku Maezawa, was little known worldwide until he…

For the last 23 years, people in Japan have turned on the evening news on December 12 (Kanji Day) to learn which “kanji of the…

Having a hard time saving money? Pikachu could give you a hand to fix that problem. Japanese company Shine makes coin banks to help children…

Paying with an unfamiliar currency can be confusing at first — you might think you handed the cashier the right amount of money, only to…