Stamps celebrating next year's Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games went...
TOKYO - Stamps celebrating next year’s Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games went on sale on Tuesday, 500 days before the start of the summer showpiece.
One million sheets of 10 stamps are on sale, priced at 920 yen , which includes a donation of 100 yen towards preparations for the Games. “I like the mascots,” said Yu Anami, who had come to the station early to get her hands on the stamps.The designer of the stamps, Akira Tamaki, said he had taken inspiration from the commemorative stamps made for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, when Japan last held the Summer Games.
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