In Japan it's all about the bling bling. It's very much a cash based society here, I am yet to use a card to pay for a single item, and I've bought a car. This means that everybody carries around huge bundles of cash. Back home I would never carry more than £50 for fear of getting mugged, but here, having £500 in your wallet is prefectly normal. It's taken a while to get used to, but now I too enjoy the delights of having a phat wad of cash in my back burner at all times. Each one of these notes is Y10,000, and is called a "man". This little collection is worth about £400.