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Japan to introduce series of redesigned banknotes

Xinhua | Updated: 2019-04-09 14:51

Images show the front (L) and back of Japan's new 500 yen coin to be introduced in fiscal 2024. [Photo/VCG]

The new 1,000 yen bill, meanwhile, will feature bacteriologist and physician Shibasaburo Kitasato. Kitasato helped find a method to prevent diphtheria and tetanus and co-discovered the infectious agent of the bubonic plague.

He was was nominated for the first annual Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901.

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