Japan’s first new banknotes in 20 years have entered circulation, featuring three-dimensional portraits of the founders of financial and female education institutions in an attempt to curb counterfeits. While ATMs and ticket machines have been updated to treat the new bills, many of the country’s ubiquitous vending machines have not. But first, a new law has gone into effect in Greece allowing employees to work six days a week in order to make up for a shrinking working population.
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