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Originally Posted by WingsToDiscovery
Yeah, that is a bit confusing. I wish the 500 and 100 were also bills, or at least just the 500.
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I found that after getting used to Japanese currency, it seemed really strange to use bills for smaller amounts. One dollar bills seem incredibly wasteful as they are worth so very little.
If the 2000 yen bill were in wider use, I would be happy with even the 1000 being a coin.
As to the extreme language being used by WingsToDiscovery...
If you are searching for evidence to support your view that people are xenophobic, racist, looking down at you, etc... You will see that sort of thing anywhere you look, regardless of whether it truly carries that meaning. It is sort of like scientists cherry picking only results that support their hypothesis and being blinded to all that do not.
It is a really common habit among disgruntled English teachers in Japan - and in my observances, one of the steps to becoming one of those total Japan haters who start believing that anything they don't understand is someone talking about them behind their back... Or that any inconvenience is because people are discriminating against you based on race, etc.