by Philbert Ono, Updated: Jan. 14, 2024 In a land where billions of postcards are printed and sent every year, it’s surprising that…

by Philbert Ono, Updated: Jan. 14, 2024 Contents: Early history | How to date Japanese postcards | Year Conversion Table Early history of…

by Andrew Watt, Kokkei Shimbun collector, 1997 Among the many attractive Japanese postcards published in the first decade of the 20th century, the Kokkei…

By Jason P. Smith, spring 1997 (Updated Jan. 14, 2024) The first weekend in February I made a trip to Osaka to check…

In the late 1990s, we had an English-speaking postcard collectors’ club in Tokyo called the Postcard and Paper Collectible Club of Japan founded…