Video Transcript YUU ASAKURA: If you are travelling to Japan, this is an information for you. This is a Japanese currency, and this is the mark and we call it yen in English. Actually, in Japanese it's pronounced "En." We don't really have the "Ye" sound, so we call it "En." And this...

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