Japan
jap-19860301-c-001
Cancel

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Belongs to cancel group 21
There were 8 different cancels available throughout the 1986 Asian Winter Games ice hockey tournament which ran from March 1 through March 8, 1986 in Sapporo, Japan, one cancel for each day of the tournament. The cancel was in Japanese and English.
Cancel size: 31 mm in diameter.
Translation of cancel
English characters shown in red


First Annual Winter Asian Games
1st Asian Winter Games Sapporo 1986
March 1, 1986
Sapporo


NOTE
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Location: Ice Hockey Volume LXI

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.