Word: yen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second Mitsui enterprise was a pawnshop. Later, a money-changing office grew into the great banking system which financed and controlled the Mitsui merchandising, manufacturing and shipping empire. In 1937 the private wealth of the eleven Mitsui family heads was estimated at 1,635,000,000 yen ($450 million...
...reconverted from an army drill ground, and into 17 movie houses (four more than before pika-don). The current feature was one of Japan's first postwar movies called Blast of Love. And for the children, there was a new toy, The Peace Game, priced cheaply at seven yen...
...Times No. In Ohro, Japan, five thieves, offered 2,000 yen by Mrs. Ko Nagashima, snorted, "We couldn't take a paltry sum like that," made her go next door and borrow 10,000 more...
...Chinese Governor Chen Yi found the raid-battered Formosans docile. He promptly put his nephew in charge of the Taiwan Co., which bought coal at 200 yen a ton and sold it at 4,000. Black-market gold sold at 300,000 Chinese dollars an ounce, against $180,000 in Shanghai. Even in fertile Formosa, mass starvation threatened...
...villagers of Kawaidani needed a new primary school in 1926, but they hardly had a yen to their name. Somebody suggested that if they saved all the money they blew on sake they could have schools aplenty. Last week, after 20 years of self-imposed prohibition, 310 Kawaidani farmers counted up their savings. They had piled up 2½ million yen-enough to build several schools. Their duty done, a new school opened, the village's entire population leaped off the wagon together...