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Japan 2011 Phila Nippon 2011 Stamp with holographic foil

Issue date  21 January 2011

Japan Post to commemorate the Japan World Stamp Exhibition 2011 (PHILANIPPON’11) held from July 28th to August 2nd at PACIFICO YOKOHAMA in Yokohama has issued a mini sheet with stamps depicting popular Japanese anime characters Astro Boy, Doraemon, Pikachu, Hello Kitty with the last stamp from the 

Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga ("Animal-person Caricatures") scrolls, These stamps were printed with holographic foil printing.

Doraemon is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Fujiko F. Fujio from 1969. The series has also been adapted into a successful anime series and media franchise.

Pokémon is a media franchise managed by The Pokémon Company, a Japanese consortium between Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures. The franchise was created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1995, and is centered on fictional creatures called "Pokémon", which humans, known as Pokémon Trainers, catch and train to battle each other for sport.

Hello Kitty, is a fictional character produced by the Japanese company Sanrio, created by Yuko Shimizu in 1974 and currently designed by Yuko Yamaguchi. She is depicted as an anthropomorphic white Japanese Bobtail cat-inspired character with a red bow.

Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga ("Animal-person Caricatures") is a famous set of four picture scrolls, or emakimono, belonging to Kōzan-ji temple in Kyoto, Japan. The Chōjū-giga scrolls are also referred to as Scrolls of Frolicking Animals and Scrolls of Frolicking Animals and Humans in English. Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga is also credited as the oldest work of manga (mid-12th century). The scrolls are now entrusted to the Kyoto National Museum and Tokyo National Museum.

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