Existing bills will stay in use, but train stations, parking lots and ramen shops are scrambling to upgrade payment machines as the government pushes consumers and businesses to use less cash in its bid to digitise the economy. Surrounded by family, the Prime Minister told his audience: 'We have we have urgent work here, my friends, because at this point we only have a day left to save Britain from the danger of a Labour government. Many Japanese fast-food restaurants such as ramen shops and beef bowl stores use ticket machines to cut labour costs, but some small business owners battling inflation are unhappy at the extra investment needed.

'I understand people's frustrations with me, with our party, but I say this: tomorrow's vote is not a byelection, it's not a referendum about the past, it's a choice about the future of our country, a choice that is going to have severe consequences for each and every family if we get that choice wrong.' With the Tories trailing Labour by some margin in recent polls, Sunak was careful to acknowledge 'frustrations' with his party - but urged supporters to 'fight for our vision of Britain' and not 'sleepwalk' into a Labour government.

'We have to recognise that... people do have a hesitation about giving us their support again. And I understand that. I'm not blind to the fact it's been a difficult few years for the country with Covid, the war in Ukraine and bills.  Rishi Sunak vowed to fight until the end and defend the Tories' record as he implored voters to 'save Britain from the danger of a Labour government' in his last campaign speech before polls open tomorrow. With Labour pegged to receive an historic majority, Sunak reminded the undecided of what he deemed Tory successes in education and defence, recovery after the 2008 financial crisis and the response to Covid-19.

"The machine replacement has no sales impact, so it's only negative for us, on top of rising costs of labour and ingredients," said Shintaro Sekiguchi, who spent about 600,000 yen for ticket machines at three ramen shops he runs in Tokyo. ($1=161.6500 yen) (Reporting by Irene Wang; Additional reporting by Takahiko Wada; Writing by Kantaro Komiya; Editing by Clarence Fernandez and Stephen Coates) The notes use printed patterns to generate holograms of the portraits facing different directions, depending on the angle of view, employing a technology that Japan's National Printing Bureau says is the world's first for paper money.

The new 5,000-yen bill portrays educator Umeko Tsuda (1864-1929), who founded one of the first women's universities in Japan, while the 1,000-yen bill features a pioneering medical scientist, Shibasaburo Kitasato (1853-1931). Nearly 90% of bank ATMs, train ticket machines and retail cash registers are ready for splash math 3rd grade the new bills, but only half of restaurant and parking ticket machines, the Japan Vending Machine Manufacturers Association said. "It might take until year-end to respond to this," said Takemori Kawanami, an executive at ticket machine company Elcom.

"That's too slow, but we are short of components," he added, as client orders for upgrades exceeded expectations.