2012 Japan New definitives High face value 350Yen and 500Yen issued on July 2nd, 2012

A friend of mine sent me these FDC covers to me. The machine cancellation is not usual for the registered letters. Thank you Mr.F and I'll give you some nice international cover later on.

Letter Pack Light vol.2

I sent a new letter pack light to the destination of general delivery just because I want a cancellation of the destination post office. I like this example because there are two kinds of cancellation and both of them are very clear and beautiful at right position. It seems it took two days to deliver (June. 30 -> July 2) , however it is just because July 1st is Sunday. 

By the way, today Japan Post issued two new definitives, 350 yen and 500 yen. As only half hundred post office sell these new stamps in Japan, I have no chance to get them in the morning and I've finally got it in the afternoon at Kyobashi Post Office near Ginza. I made some FDC, so I'll show them later days.

America'12 held in Japan

Today I've been to America'12 held in Tokyo. private stamp show of Japanese philatelist who collect stamps of USA. I'm not used to stamps of US just because I have little knowledge of the manufacute knnoledge of them, however, I can understand some of them as the defenitives between 1845 to 1954 is shown in this show.

As a general collector, I usually ignore the difference in manufacutring point of view, however it's more interesting to collect defenitives of some important countries with manufacuturing points and regarding stamps of US, I can study how to collect them.

By the way, I got a letter with machine cancellation of Yokohama P.O. sold at the show. it was just $3.5. very cheap, though the envelope was not clean as attached.

 

2012 Japan Stationery Letter Pack Light

I got many new blue "Letter Pack Light" today, which is to be sold at post offices when all the stock of the older one, red "Letter Pack 350" is finished.

I asked a clerk at a post office to sell me this new one if I buy 100 copies with success. I'm going to make some used one with a cancellation of June 2012.

1961 Japan Letter Writing Week HAKONE by Hiroshige Ando

This is an International Registered Letter to Germany, which is classified as the third rate area from Japan those days.

Europe, of course including Germany is now classfied as the second rate area from Japan, however was classified as the third rate area before. I think this is because there are no flight over the north pole those days.

 

Uruguay Japan Joint Issue

A philatelist I encountered at ebay.com sent me this envelope. I'm vey happy as I feel his sense as well as his hospitality to attache such stamps because I'm a Japanese.

 

90th Anniversary of Uruguay-Japan diplomatic relations established (Joint Issue), Block of four
Registered Letter to Japan, $154 
Cancelled "CORREO URUGUAY / 31 MAY 2012 / LOCAL PORTONES" (PORTONES is in English. Meaning of Gates)

 

Occupied Territories, Hong Kong, south

When I was in 8th grade, I exhibited a collection for the first time in my life which contains the stamps issued at the Japanese Military Occupied Area and I got Silver-Bronze medal then.
I stopped collecting them more just because I found super modern Japanese stamps and stationeries more interesting and I started collecting European countries after I started collecting stamps again, but I sometimes think about Japanese Military occupied area stamps and so I joined the club of this theme in Japan and this is the only philatelic club I join now in Japan.
Last weekend as I was busy enought not to go to Osaka, I joined Stamp Fleamarket which Mr. Takasaki held in Asakusa and there I got many Japanese covers. Among them I found the cover used in the Military Occupied Hong Kong. It is sold at 2,000yen (20 EURO) at the Tanaka-ya shop. I felt the cancellation is rather beautiful as it was not cancelled during the period but as it was only 20 Euro, I got it anyway.

When I returned home, I checked the other covers used and cancelled in Hong Kong and I upload the images as well.
Well what I got this time at 20euro is too much beautiful , but is it genuine or fake? How do you think about it?

17.1.22 Hong Kong (22th Jan. 1942)

Registered letter to Japan, Hong Kong 20.5.19 (19th May 1945)