The agency has its head office in Osaka with branches in Saitama and Hiroshima.

The Japan Mint does not produce paper money; that responsibility belongs to the National Printing Bureau.

Amongst the first acts of the Meiji government was the establishment of the Imperial Japanese Mint as a constructive step towards modernising Japan's circulating currency.

In the early Meiji era, paper currency was initially printed by Dondorf and Naumann in Germany.

[1] The European production was inspected and sealed by Banknote Annex Office of the Ministry of Finance.