New Years is Japan’s biggest holiday. The holiday has many traditions in Japan.
One of the traditions is sending 年賀状 (New Years postcards).
One the back of Japanese New Years postcards, in the lower right-hand corner, is a six-digit number.
Every year in late January, the Japan Post Office has a New Years Postcard Lottery.
Yesterday was this years drawing.
The winning numbers for the 2010 年賀状 (New Years Postcard) lottery:
★ First Place (TV, computer, travel, digital camera or an office set)
– 975424
★ Second Place (Wii, digital camera, DVD player, TV)
– 259668,
– 446722, or
– 630838
★ Third Place (brand name merchandise)
– any number with the last four digits as 0977
★ Fourth Place (postage stamps)
– any number with the last two digits as either 00 or 52
★ “C” Prize (JTB ¥5,000 gift certificate)
– any number with the last five digits as 27520
There is also a Summer postcard lottery in Japan.
And I wrote a post about the New Years Postcard Lottery last year.
Did you get 年賀状 (Japanese New Years postcards) this year?
Do any of you cards have a winning lottery number?
I have three winning cards…all for postage stamps.
Tokyo Five 
Cool! I didn’t even check to see if I won anything last year. I had sent some abroad by attaching 20yen stamps to the cards, so I hope they made it!
Maybe this year I will win something cool like stamps, or something better.
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They’ll announce the winning numbers later this month.
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So Goods….
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Thanks.
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Free stamps? Not a bad deal! Send me a card next year. 🙂
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The stamps are Japanese postage, not U.S…I’m sure you know.
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I had rather guessed that, yes. 😉
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I was certain.
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Wow I wouldnt mind winning those. I received my 1st nengajyo from my friend but i doubt its valid for me over here or anything hehehe
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Does it have a winning number on it?
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Its got the 6 digit numbers on it but *sigh* its no winner ….
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Maybe next year.
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