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The winners of the 2008 New Year Postcard lottery for the Year of the Rat have been announced, and the winning numbers and prizes are as follows. The number to check is the six digit number at the bottom right of the card. Note that some cards do not actually have numbers…

First prize: 574578

Choose any one from a 37 inch Sharp AQUOS LCD television, a Sharp water oven, a MacBook plus iPod classic, or a foreign holiday from HIS.

Second prize: 957358, 769466, or 397940

Choose any one from an iPod nano, a Nintendo Wii, a Canon IXY DIGITAL 10 camera, a Sanyo air filter, or a Le Creuset cast iron pan.

Third prize: last four digits 9660

Choose any one from a pasta sauce set, filter coffee, Marrons Glaces (Crystallized Chestnuts), some Asakusa boiled beef, a Queen Alice beef stew set, Dalloyau French sweets, some Imperial Hotel canned soup, Yoku Moku sweets, Nadaman restaurant gift set, or Orbis Collagen beauty drink.

Fourth prize: last two digits 37 or 64

Otoshidama stamp set - a fifty yen and an eighty yen stamp, pictured above.

C Gumi Special prize: 812751 or 561101

Choose any one from cardboard furniture set, commuter bicycle set, or a garden decoration set. The “C Gumi” is apparently something to do with carbon offest New Year Postcards.

New Year Greeting Original Prize: 935473, 588104, 520056 or 700871

New Year Greeting Original Ninetendo DS Lite.

If you have matched any of these, go to your nearest post office before the 28th of July 2008 and either collect the stamps while you wait, or apply for any of the bigger prizes. The full prize line-up can be seen here. I haven’t checked my cards yet, but how did you get on?

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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.

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