iS JAPAN MONEY AND CHINA MONEY THE SAME?

They're completely different even though they were *traditionally* written using the same character (different now). The last answerer, Steffie, is correct in her general idea BUT her history is way off. Japan wasn't strong enough to fight China until the 20th century. However, they began to adopt elements of Chinese culture long before that, sometime around 600-700 AD. I wouldn't call that stealing. If anything, China's was such a strong country a millennium ago that its influence spread to Japan.

1 Chinese yuan = 13.7 Japanese yen
1 US dollar = 7 Chinese yuan = 97 Japanese yen.

So if you send a postal order in Japanese money to China, you'll be sending a lot less than you think =p

P.S. Hmm... I believe that apart from the European Union member states, all other countries tend to have their own currency. In the "Chinese speaking area of Asia" alone, there are four currencies: the Chinese yuan, the Hong Kong dollar, the Macau pataca, and the Taiwanese dollar.

no they are not the same. the japanese use the yen. the chinese the rmb.
the exchange rates are different. use xe.com to check current rates.

there's actually lots of restrictions on chinese currency that may be why it's hard to find international money orders.

Allow me to clear some things up:
Firstly, contrary to many beliefs, Chinese money and japanese money is the same: they are both the YUAN (Chinese word for 'dollar'). to help you understand, i need to explain something first: the japanese, who were originally under China's rule and protection in like, Ming Chao (dynasty) or something (similar to Australia being under British rule and recieving protection from them). then they decided their land was too small and fought the Chinese and stole many things like culture and literature such as ink, block printing and art to name a few, and currency. So now, like how accents varies, many spoken words in 'japanese' is very similar to Chinese eg telephone in Chinese (mandarin) is Dian Hua (not 'hwa'. 'Hwa' and 'Kung Fu' and 'Lee' are simply 'western adaptations. They are (respectively) Hua, Gong Fu and Li.) and 'yes' is "hai" in Cantonese (again, a variation of Mandarin. China's minorities like in Xi Zang (Tibet) for example uses a "local dialect") and "hai" in japanese. Also words like 'population' Chihnese is "Ren Kou" and jap is "Ren Ko". Traffic signals is Chinese: Xin Hao jap: Shin Go. Tea is "Cha" (Chinese) and "Chya" (jap) etc. The diffference is that the jap has a set of 'flat sounds' made from sylables where a vowel follows a consanant eg ka, ya, wabi, te etc. The only complex sound is 'sh' and they can't pronounce "cha" so instead they say it in two steps: CHi and YA but the 'i' is small so its CHiYA(Chya). They do not have complex blended sounds like in Chinese: hua, gn at the end eg xiNG and has ZH and blended vowels. To replace the complex blendings, dian hua becomes the obvious sounds: den wa. So YUAN becomes YEN. they are written in Han Zi the same way. "Han Zi" is literally "words (literature) of the Han dynasty (an early Chinese Dynasty) and in jap it is "Kan Ji"So when jap people say , this is how you write it in 'kan ji' they are actually saying "this is how you write it in ([the "words (literature) of the Han dynasty"] ie) Chinese.

So yes, they are the same, just like Australia and America both uses the 'dollar'. Now in China, shops still use the YUAN sign (a simplified version of the han zi)
The only difference is the pronounciation and value (jap is lower)

No, Japan is ONE country China ANOTHER different one, hence 2 different currencies

When will people learn that China and Japan are two completely different countries. Anyway, no, it's Yuan in China and Yen in Japan.

They are totally different kind of money, or value. Chinese money is called yuan, and Japanese money is called yen. Japanese is lower value than Chinese.

No its not.

Chinese money "RMB" is not international money, however hong kong dollars is, and thats prob. the closest you can get to RMB HKD-RMB about 95:100
Yen, (JAPAN) is worth a lot less than Chinese money, but its an international currency.
Hope this helps.

Of course not!

No! It is kinda like the difference between a penis and vagina!

yes,made from recycled tissue paper

Japanese Yen is one of the three major (hard) currencies in the world. Chinese Yuan is not. The value is different. However, I think you can remit money to China by US$. Ask at post office.