While 100-yen stores also theoretically provide patrons with one-coin shopping convenience, settling the tally after adding consumption tax (currently 10% in most cases, but sometimes 8% ...

People may window-shop for fashions, but they actually shop at 100-yen stores. A single 100-yen coin (plus an additional 5 yen for tax, totaling about $1.15) buys you more than just plastic ...

Japan first started issuing commemorative coins in 1964 to celebrate the Tokyo Olympic Games -- two specially designed coins face-valued at 100 yen and 1,000 yen, respectively. They would be the first ...

And no, we’re not talking off-brand shampoos and old candy. Freelancer Andrew Bender writes: A single 100-yen coin (plus an additional 5 yen for tax, totaling about $1.15) buys you more than ...

A research team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Texas at Austin is developing a prototype of a tiny 3D printer that is roughly the same size as a 25-cent coin ...

"The film's title is inspired by the fact that Space Invaders caused a nation-wide 100 Yen coin shortage; people were literally spending coins faster than they could circulate," Crawford told ...

In summer or in autumn?" Two different collection boxes were placed close by, one for "summer" and the other for "autumn," instructing people to toss 100-yen coins into the box of their choice.

A US dollar could soon be worth the same as a Japanese 100-yen coin for the first time since April 2009, as investors price in the Bank of Japan’s aggressive monetary expansion. A US dollar ...