Carla Rapoport

  • 1980: Workers at the Printing Bureau of the Ministry of Finance in Takinogawa, Japan, checking sheets of 10,000 Yen notes for flaws prior to being cut and counted. The Takinogawa factory prints eight hundred million notes of various denominations each year. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)Magazine

    Will the yen push aside the dollar?

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