Asia:
Japan
Japan pick 30c: 1 Yen from 1916
ND (1916). Black on light orange underprint. Portrait p1 at right with Western serial number. Back: 1 yen coin at center and left. Block number 300 and higher.
Japan pick 40a: 10 Yen from 1930
ND (1930). Black on green and brown underprint. Portrait p3 at right. Back: Green and brown. Japanese text with denomination in English.
Japan pick 49a: 1 Yen from 1943
ND (1943). Black on light blue underprint. Portrait p1 at center, serial number and block number 1-34. Japanese text only. Back: Ube Shrine at center.
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Japan pick 51a: 10 Yen from 1943
(1943). Black on brown and light blue underprint. Portrait p3 at right. Black serial number and block number. Japanese text only. Back: Blue. Goo Shrine at center. Watermark: 10 Yen in Japanese characters at top center.
Japan pick 58a: 50 Sen from 1938
1938. Black on yellow and blue underprint. Mt. Fuji and cherry blossoms. (Showa yr. 13 at l.) Back: Light green.
Japan pick 59b: 50 Sen from 1942
1942-1944. Black on green and brown underprint. Yasukuni Shrine. Back: Green. Mountain at center. Showa yr. 18 (middle and second from bottom characters in text at very right are 十八).
Japan pick 63: 10 Sen from 1945
ND (1945). Black on light blue underprint. B in underprint.
Japan pick 69a: 5 Yen from 1945
ND (1945). Black on light blue underprint. B in underprint. Back: Brown. Serial number prefix - suffix A-A.
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Japan pick 85a: 1 Yen from 1946
ND (1946). Black on light brown underprint. Cockerel at lower center, portrait Ninomiya Sontoku at right. Back: Blue.
Japan pick 90b: 100 Yen from 1953
ND (1953). Brown-violet on green and multicolor underprint. Portrait Itagaki Taisuke at right. Back: Diet building at right.12 varieties exist. Double letter serial number prefix. Light brown paper.
Japan pick 95b: 500 Yen from 1969
ND (1969). Blue on multicolored underprint. Tomomi Iwakura at right. Back steel blue; Mount Fuji at left center. Watermark: five petaled flower. Double letter serial number prefix.
Japan pick 100b: 1000 Yen from 1993
ND(1993). Blue on multicolored underprint. Soseki Natsume at right and as watermark. Two Manchurian cranes on back. Microprinting added to upper or lower right corner. Double letter serial number prefix. Brown serial number. Printer name 8 characters starting with 'O'.
Japan pick 107: 1000 Yen from 2024
Not dated. First issued on July 3rd, 2024. Grey-blue on multicolored underprint. Portrait of Kitasato Shibasaburō at right, and in hologram area at bottom left. Back: Kanagawa-oki nami ura” (Under the Great Wave off Kanagawa) from the series Fugaku sanjūrokkei (Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji), a Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai.