I’m sorry, but you’re simply wrong. For example, every conbini in the country has virtually all their goods labeled with 円 instead of ¥, which alone is tens of thousands of shops. I dunno if you ran into a few weird shops in your time in Japan, but I’m telling you that daily life here involves way more “en” than “yen”.
not denying they exist, but it is by far the minority method.
I’m sorry, but you’re simply wrong. For example, every conbini in the country has virtually all their goods labeled with 円 instead of ¥, which alone is tens of thousands of shops. I dunno if you ran into a few weird shops in your time in Japan, but I’m telling you that daily life here involves way more “en” than “yen”.