Japan stamps

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Scott: #163P

The first Stamp on stamp

"The First Stamp on Stamp Issue"
(SOS Signal for January 2005)

Scott: #165O

Issued: 20.4.1921

50th Anniversary, Postal Service and Stamps

Inside #163, #165:

Japan #1O	Japan #2O	Japan #3O	Japan #4O

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Scott: #375-78O

Issued: 12.12.1946

75^th Anniversary, Japanese Postal Service

Inside #377: Japan #1O

Scott: #378aO

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Issued: 01.11.1969

JAPEX '69

G.B. #1	Japan #1O	Japan #2O	Japan #3O	Japan #4O	Japan #29O

Thanks to Sergei Divid

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Scott: #????O

Issued: ??.??.1971

Centenary of the First Postage Dragon Stamp

Inside #????

Japan #1O	Japan #2O	Japan #3O	Japan #4O

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Scott: #1410O

Issued: 23.7.1980

Letter Writing Day

Inside #1410: Stamp on Envelope

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Scott: #1460P

Issued: 23.7.1981

Letter Writing Day

Inside #1460: Stamp Collecting

(Thanks to Zhang for the scan)

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Scott: #1484aP

Issued: 9.10.1981

Philatokyo '81

Inside #1481-4:

Japan #1O	Japan #2O	Japan #3O	Japan #4O

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Scott: #1531P

Issued: 23.7.1983

Letter Writing Day

Inside #1531: Stamp on Envelope

Thanks to Zhang

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Scott: #1566-7O

Issued: 23.7.1984

Letter Writing Day

Inside #1567: Stamp on Envelope

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Scott: #2402P, #2403P, #2404P, #2405P

Scott: #2405aO

Thanks to Lloyd Gilbert for scan

Issued: 10.8.1994

Postal History Series

Inside #2402-5:

Japan #1O	Japan #2O	Japan #3O	Japan #4O

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Scott: #2409aP

Issued: 18.11.1994

Postal History Series (commemorating Edoardo Chiossone)

Inside #2406: Japan #55O

Inside #2407: Japan #56O

Inside #2408: Japan #63O

Inside #2409: Japan #65O

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Scott: #2410-1P

Issued: 25.1.1995

Postal History Series

Inside #2410: Japan #85O

Inside #2411: Japan #86O

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Scott: #2412-3P

Issued: 25.5.1995

Postal History Series

Inside #2412: Japan #C3O

Inside #2413: Japan #C6O

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Scott: #2473P

Issued: 21.7.1995

Letter Writing Day

Inside #2473: Symbolic

(Thanks to Zhang for the scan)

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Scott: #2414-7P

Issued: 19.9.1995

Postal History Series

Inside #2414: Japan #436P

Inside #2415: Japan #428O

Inside #2416: Japan #435O

Inside #2417: Japan #433P

Scott: #2417aO

(Thanks to Zhang for the scan)

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Scott: #2421aP

Issued: 3.6.1996

Postal History Series

Inside #2418-9: Japan like #422O (B)

Inside #2420-1: Japan like #479O (B)

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Martin Hirschbühl wrote: as you see below, the same painting, that was first shown in the "Philatelic Week 1948" and reproduced in 1996, was also used for the "Philatelic Week 1991".

What makes a difference is the reason, that the 1996 issue tends to be very similar to the first stamp of 1948; at least the upper description is almost identical.

While the issue of 1991 (on bottom) only reproduces the famous painting "Beauty Looking Back" (by Moronobu) but was not meant to be a reminiscence to that 1948 stamp.

JAPAN 2030-2031 Block 154 (1991)

Lou wrote:: As Martin wrote, this 1991 issue is not, in any way, even a Type B stamp on stamp. When you add it to the site, you are just showing the 1948/1996 artwork in color instead of monotone, which is much prettier. 

For me, the 1996 issue barely qualified as a Type B (I always disliked that designation, and came up with my own Design Component category), and only because the Japan post made it part of the Postal History series. I included them in my collection mainly because I already owned the two 1948 art stamps to mount with them!

Martin, the matching inscriptions at the top of the issues is on all post-war (modern) Japanese stamps, and probably reads Nippon Post or something similar.

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Scott: #2349aO

Renumbered to #Z254aO

Issued: 23.7.1998

50th Anniversary, Ryukyu Stamps

Inside #Z254a: Ryukyu Is #1O

Inside #Z254a: Ryukyu Is #228O

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Scott: #2655O

Issued: 15.12.1998

Greetings Stamps, The 50^th Anniversary of the New Year's Stamps

	Inside #2655: Japan #522O (B) - Girl and Rabbit (1951)
	Inside #2655: Japan #773P(B) - Rabbit bell (1962)
	Inside #2655: Japan #1708O (B) – “Meoto usagi-no mochi-tsuki” - a pair of rabbit making rice cake (1986)
	Inside #2655: Japan #????P(B) - "Mochi-tsuki usagi" - rabbit pounding steamed rice into rice cake (1998)

http://www2.biglobe.ne.jp/~iwaoka/stamp/nys/stamp3.htm

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Scott: #2789a-jO

Issued: 1.8.2001

PHILA NIPPON '01 Exhibition

Inside #2789j: Japan #1O

http://www.values.ch/Countries/Japan/Looking-Back/looking-back-2.htm

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Scott: #2864hP

Issued: 23.07.2003

Letter Writing Day

Inside #2864h: stamp on Envelope

Scott: #2864O

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Scott: #3004O

Issued: 1.10.2007

Establishment of Japan Post Corporation

Inside #3004b: Japan #2O

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Scott: #3345O

Scott: #3346O

Scott: #3347O

Issued: 28.07.2011

Philanippon 2011 Exhibition

Inside #3345 & #3347 (In margin): Pseudo stamp

Inside #3345: On the label attached to each stamp is an enlargement of part of the stamp design

Scott: #3346bO

Inside #3346b: Japan #1O

(In embossed gold foil)

Thanks to Lou Guadagno and Prof. Plinio Richelmi

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Scott: #3594O

Issued: 19.09.2013

Greetings 

Inside #3594b,d,f,i: stamp on Envelope

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Scott: #3727cP

Issued: 19.08.2014

Snoopy and Friends

Inside #3727c: stamp on Envelope

Scott: #3727O

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Scott: #3855P

Issued: 23.07.2015

Letter Writing Day

Inside #3855: stamp on Envelope

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Best website related:

Japan Post

http://www.post.japanpost.jp/english/index.html

http://yushu.or.jp/english/index.html

Japanese Stamp

http://www2.biglobe.ne.jp/~iwaoka/stamp/stamp.htm

Japan Philatelic Group Limited

http://www.japanphilatelic.com/

Japanese Occupation Postage Stamps

http://www.geocities.com/~rgh14/

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Japan #1 for Bulgaria, Turks and Caicos, Bhutan, Italy, G.B., Korea North, Paraguay   

Japan #1-4 + for Cuba, Sharjah 

Japan #6 or #8 for Tchad

Japan #9 for Wallis & Futuna

Japan #17 or #30 for Ivory Coast

Japan #46 for Paraguay

Japan #47 for Paraguay

Japan #50 for Paraguay

Japan #55

Japan #56

Japan #63

Japan #65

Japan #69 for Italy

Japan #85

Japan #86

Japan #154 for Bhutan

Scott: #165

Japan #C3

Japan #C6

Japan #B1 for Palau

Japan #170 for Bhutan

Japan #178 for Bhutan

Japan #204 for Bhutan

Japan #B7 for Palau

Japan #B12 for Kyrgyzstan

Japan #B19 for Ajman

Japan #B20 for Ajman

Japan #B28 for Ras Al-Khaima

Japan #C25 for Mali

Japan #201 for Palau

Japan #257 for Palau

Japan #299 for Bhutan

Japan #347 for Palau

Japan #381 for Bhutan

Japan #B34 for Ras Al-Khaima

Japan #B35 for Ras Al-Khaima

Scott: #375-78

Scott: #378a

Japan like #422 (OTW – BOB 9.23)

Japan #428

Japan #435

Japan like #479

Japan #522

Japan #547 for Palau, Bhutan

Japan #616 for Ras Al-Khaima, St. Thomas & Prince

Japan #630 for Ras Al-Khaima

Japan #904 for Ajman, Paraguay 

Japan #907 for Yemen

Japan #931 for Ras Al-Khaima, Yemen

Japan #936 for Korea North

Japan #953 for Ras Al-Khaima

Japan #975 for Bhutan

Japan #984 for Ras Al-Khaima

Japan #991 for Ajman

Japan #1015 for Ajman

Japan #1094 for Bhutan

Japan #1103 for Antigua & Barbuda

Japan #1196 for Sierra Leone

Japan #1302 for Sierra Leone

Japan #1344 for Korea North

Japan #1373 for Korea North

Scott: #1410

Japan #1414 for Antigua & Barbuda

Japan #1437 for Philippines

Japan #1480 for Saint Thomas & Prince

Scott: #1566-7

Japan #1671 for Bhutan

Japan #1708

Japan #2607g for Dominica

Scott: #2417aO

Scott: #2349aO

Scott: #2655O

Scott: #2789a-jO

Scott: #2864O

Scott: #3004O

Scott: #3345O

Scott: #3346O

Scott: #3346bO

Scott: #3347O

Scott: #3594O

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Japan Prefectural Stamps - Hokkaido

Japan #Z119 for St. Thomas & Prince

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Netherlands Indies-Japanese occupation of Java and Sumatra

Netherlands Indies-Japanese occupation of Java and Sumatra #N1 (1943) for Indonesia