I can't find these coins on the internet. They are Japanese or Chinese?

Not sure if it's one cent or what. Just can't find them on the internet to know what they are.

 

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Here are two good sites for looking up Chinese cash coins:
http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/china/china.htm#index
http://www.sportstune.com/chinese/coins/idpage1.html

I don't think they are coins though. I believe they are tokens/charms.

 

They are all charms. They are based on actual coins, but none of them actually circulated.

 

Here’s an actual example of one I pulled from Numista.

 

Yeah cause they are very thin. One broke in half on me really quick. Thank y'all for telling what these really are.

 

These are charms based on Qing Dynasty cash coins, there is plenty of information about them on the internet, just look at:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numismatic_charm

and

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qing_dynasty_coinage

The reverse inscriptions of these charms reads "Board of Revenue Mint" in Manchu while the "coins" themselves are based on the cash coins of 4 different Qing Dynasty emperors. They are a part of a Feng Shui charm where a string of every cash coin issued by a Qing Dynasty Emperor from 1644 until 1911 would supposedly bring "good luck", apparently you only have 4 (four) so the charm isn't complete.