世論 What Japan Thinks

Just in case you bought or were given tickets for the Japan End of Year Lottery and want to find out if you have won or not, here are the results. I haven’t seen them reported anywhere else in English, so I thought I’d post here. First, look at a sample ticket.

The two highlighted numbers are the ones of interest. The top two-digit number is the 組, gumi, or ticket group that this ticket belongs to. This one is 57 gumi. The second number is the serial number, in this case #134963.

By the way, if you are looking for the winners of the Year of the Rat New Year Postcard Nengajo lottery, the results were published on the 27th of January. That one’s got a nice booby prize of two rat-themed stamps!

Now to the winners:

Top prize: 83 gumi, #136917: 200,000,000 yen

Close but no cigar prize 1: 83 gumi, #136916 or #136918: 50,000,000 yen
Close but no cigar prize 2: 82 or 84 gumi, #136917: 100,000 yen

Second prize: 03 gumi, #187951: 100,000,000 yen
Second prize: 65 gumi, #119970: 100,000,000 yen
Second prize: 31 gumi, #100682: 100,000,000 yen

Third prize: 01 gumi, #152735: 10,000,000 yen
Third prize: 90 gumi, #100823: 10,000,000 yen
Third prize: 31 gumi, #145940: 10,000,000 yen

Fourth prize: second digit of gumi equals 1, #194938: 1,000,000 yen
Fourth prize: second digit of gumi equals 0, #149856: 1,000,000 yen

Fifth prize: any gumi, #158207: 100,000 yen
Fifth prize: any gumi, #158830: 100,000 yen
Fifth prize: any gumi, #190624: 100,000 yen

Sixth prize: any gumi, last four digits of serial number equal #0258: 30,000 yen

Seventh prize: any gumi, last two digits of serial number equal #78: 3000 yen

Eighth prize: any gumi, last digit of serial number equals #3: 300 yen

End of Year Lucky Prize: any gumi, last three digits of serial number equal #960: 10,000 yen

You have one calendar year from the 7th of January 2008 in which to claim your prize.