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The 300 million yen robbery (三億円事件, San Oku En Jiken), also known as the 300 million yen affair or 300 million yen incident, was an armed robbery that took place in Tokyo, Japan, on December 10, 1968. A man posing as a police officer on a motorcycle stopped bank employees transferring money and stole 294 million yen. [1]
The Korean won, Chinese yuan and Japanese yen were all derived from the Spanish-American silver dollar, a coin widely used for international trade between Asia and the Americas from the 16th to 19th centuries. During the colonial era under the Japanese (1910–45), the won was replaced by the Korean yen which was at par with the Japanese yen.
Dedollarisation refers to countries reducing reliance on the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency, medium of exchange or as a unit of account. [1] It also entails the creation of an alternative global financial and technological system in order to gain more economic independence by circumventing the dependence on the Western World-controlled systems, such as SWIFT financial transfers network for ...
The market size in 2022 was 14.6 trillion yen, less than half of the 35 trillion yen in 2005 when the market was at its peak, and the number of pachinko parlors in 2022 was 7665, less than half of the 18244 in 1997 when the number of parlors was the largest. [8]
These are the highest-grossing, primarily non- English language films in the world. Chinese is the most frequent language with 39 films in the top-50 highest grossing non-English films, while Japanese is the second most frequent language with 6 films in top-50 and India comes at third. Film and language In terms of gross revenue, English-language films are vastly over-represented among the ...
Ilaiyaraaja was born as Gnanathesigan in a Dalit family in Pannaipuram in present-day Theni district, Tamil Nadu, India, on 3 June 1943. [13] [14] At the time of joining school, his father, Daniel Ramasamy [15] changed his name from Gnanathesigan [16] to "Rajaiya", and the people in his village called him "Raasayya". [17]
China–Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC; Chinese: 中巴经济走廊; pinyin: Zhōng bā jīngjì zǒuláng; Urdu: چین پاکستان اقتصادی راہداری) is a 3,000 km Chinese infrastructure network project currently under construction in Pakistan.
Logo. Made in China 2025 [1] (MIC25, [2] MIC 2025, [3] or MIC2025; Chinese: 中国制造2025; pinyin: Zhōngguózhìzào èrlíng'èrwǔ) [4] [5] is a national strategic plan and industrial policy [6] to further develop the manufacturing sector of China, signed by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in May 2015. [7]