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  2. Postage stamps and postal history of Japan - Wikipedia

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    A 1967 stamp of Japan featuring a painting of Mount Fuji. The story of Japan's postal system with its postage stamps and related postal history goes back centuries. The country's first modern postal service got started in 1871, with mail professionally travelling between Kyoto and Tokyo as well as the latter city and Osaka.

  3. Postcard - Wikipedia

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    In Japan today, two particular idiosyncratic postcard customs exist: New Year's Day postcards (年賀状, nengajō) and return postcard s (往復はがき, ōfuku-hagaki). New Year's Day postcards serve as greeting cards , similar to Western Christmas cards , while return postcards function similarly to a self-addressed stamped envelope ...

  4. Japanese New Year - Wikipedia

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    Nengajō, new year cards in Japan. The end of December and the beginning of January are the busiest for Japanese post offices. The Japanese have a custom of sending New Year's Day postcards (年賀状, nengajō) to their friends and relatives, similar to the Western custom of sending Christmas cards. The original purpose was to give faraway ...

  5. Bromide (Japanese culture) - Wikipedia

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    It was noted that if the bromides of Japanese actor Kazuo Hasegawa were dirtied, they were gently wiped with handkerchiefs to prevent them from being scratched. At Marbello, a Japanese bromide store, bromides were described as "photographs for the fans." The store used photos where actors' eyes were facing forward, and also retouched the images ...

  6. Etiquette in Japan - Wikipedia

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    In Japan, holiday-goers do not send postcards. Instead, the tradition in Japan is for a holiday goer to bring back a souvenir, often edible (see "Gifts and gift-giving"). However, New Year's greeting postcards, or nengajō (年賀状), are a tradition similar to Christmas cards in the West.

  7. Photo print sizes - Wikipedia

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    The alternative Super series, denoted SnR, nR Plus or nR+, has an aspect ratio of 3∶2 (or as close as possible) and thus provides a better fit for standard 135 film (35 mm) at sizes of 8 inches or above. 5R is twice the size of a 2R print, 6R twice the size of a 4R print and S8R twice the size of 6R. 4D/6D is a newer size for most consumer ...

  8. Missing Post Office - Wikipedia

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    The Missing Post Office (Japanese: 漂流郵便局, Hyōryū Yūbinkyoku, "drifting post office") [1] is an artwork by Japanese artist Saya Kubota. It is a "post office" where undeliverable letters are collected, using the former Awashima Post Office building on Awashima Island in Mitoyo City, Kagawa Prefecture.

  9. Issen gorin - Wikipedia

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    Issen gorin(Japanese: 一銭五厘, hiragana: いっせんごりん)which translated means "penny postcard" is a term associated with a value placed upon draftees in the Imperial Japanese Army in the Pacific theatre of World War II. This term roughly meant that the individual was only worth the amount on the letter to draft them.

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