Product Description
SCWPM.#1003 - TBB.#364aDate: ND (intro 2000)
Grade: Unc. - Picture = Sample.
Signature: No sign. - Prefix: AA - Suffix: U
Printer: Okurasho - Finance Ministry Printing Bureau.
Description: Colour: Multicolored.
Front: Japanese text; main gate of Shuri Castle in Naha, Okinawa.
Back: English and Japanese text; Scrolls and calligraphy depicting events in The Tale of Genji
(world’s first novel, early 11th century) and The Diary of Lady Murasaki (c. 1010).
No security thread. - Watermark: Gate of Shuri Castle.
Size: 154 x 76 mm. - Material: Paper.
More info about Japan:
Japan has over 125 million inhabitants and is the 11th most populous country in the world, as well as one of the most densely populated. About three-fourths of the country's terrain is mountainous, concentrating its highly urbanized population on narrow coastal plains. Japan is divided into 47 administrative prefectures and eight traditional regions.
The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world. Japan has the world's highest life expectancy, although it is experiencing a population decline due to its very low birth rate.
