Tokyo CNN —
Banks across Japan began stocking their ATMs on Wednesday with shiny new yen notes sourced from an unlikely location – vibrant yellow flowering paperbush shrubs that grow on craggy Himalayan mountains in Nepal.
Before entering the wallets of Japanese consumers, the yen notes had a long, complex journey involving months of labor and transport by land and air across thousands of kilometers.
And this process has provided a potential new source of income to communities in one of the world’s poorest countries, by providing cash for one of its richest.
Though
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