Japan
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Occasion: 1972 Winter Olympics,1972,Sapporo,Japan
Width: 98 mm
Height: 144 mm
Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXI
Stamp ID = 2771
From "Catalog of Olympic Labels 1894-1985" by Robert J. DuBois
Souvenir sheet Nos. 1 to 5 were produced in 1971 by the Government Printing Bureau, Tokyo, and issued in 1972 by the Hokkaido Broadcasting Corporation. The Printing Bureau also produces the bank notes and postage stamps of Japan.
The souvenir sheet shown on this page was No. 4 in the DuBois catalog.
From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page.
Japan (1871-)
Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 125,716,637. A group of islands off the eastern coast of Asia.