Japan to introduce series of redesigned banknotes
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Updated: 2019-04-09 14:51
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The new 1,000 yen bill, meanwhile, will feature bacteriologist and physician Shibasaburo Kitasato. Kitasato helped find a method to prevent diphtheria and tetanus and co-discovered the infectious agent of the bubonic plague.
He was was nominated for the first annual Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1901.
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