Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photograph of stacks of bundled Japanese coins atop a straw woven mat upon a white tabletop. Archaeologists in Japan have ...

If you’re a coin collector or are interested in becoming one, you can find some fascinating choices by expanding your search to Japan. Japanese coins are known for their distinctive designs and ...

A company in Kyoto found thousands of rare ceramic coins made during metal shortages of the 1940s and believed to have been destroyed. Photo from the Japan Mint A company in Japan found thousands of ...

A piece of Japanese currency typically wouldn’t have a reason to show up in Australia. But the 1800s gold rush brought ...

The Japanese Imperialist Army had a poor reputation for counterinsurgency (COIN) in both theory and practice. In China, it is best known for perpetrating the Rape of Nanking, one of the worst ...

A haul of coins from halfway across the world turned up on an archaeological site in Japan. Exactly how they got there is a fascinating mystery. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes ...

Scientists found thousands of coins at an excavation site where a company plans to build a factory. Some of the coins were traced back to China and date some 2,000 years old. A "Ban Liang" was the ...