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  2. Japanese addressing system - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese addressing system is used to identify a specific location in Japan. When written in Japanese characters, addresses start with the largest geographical entity and proceed to the most specific one. The Japanese system is complex and idiosyncratic, the product of the natural growth of urban areas, as opposed to the systems used in ...

  3. Japanese postal mark - Wikipedia

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    Japanese postal service mark. 〒 (郵便記号, yūbin kigō) is the service mark of Japan Post and its successor, Japan Post Holdings, the postal operator in Japan. It is also used as a Japanese postal code mark since the introduction of the latter in 1968. Historically, it was used by the Ministry of Communications (逓信省, Teishin-shō ...

  4. Postal codes in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Postal codes in Japan. Postal codes in Japan are 7-digit numeric codes using the format NNN-NNNN, where N is a digit. [1] The first two digits refer to one of the 47 prefectures (for example, 40 for the Yamanashi Prefecture ), the next digit for one of a set of adjacent cities in the prefecture (408 for Hokuto, Yamanashi) the next two for a ...

  5. Addresses in South Korea - Wikipedia

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    Addresses in South Korea are used to identify specific locations within the country. South Korea has replaced its land lot-based address system with one based on street names. The switching of the address system is to make it easier for foreigners as well as Koreans to find their destinations. The current official system, the Road Name Address ...

  6. Address - Wikipedia

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    Address. Illuminated address to see better at night. An address is a collection of information, presented in a mostly fixed format, used to give the location of a building, apartment, or other structure or a plot of land, generally using political boundaries and street names as references, along with other identifiers such as house or apartment ...

  7. List of Japanese typographic symbols - Wikipedia

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    wakiten (脇点, "side dot") kurogoma (黒ゴマ, "sesame dot") shirogoma (白ゴマ, "white sesame dot") Adding these dots to the sides of characters (right side in vertical writing, above in horizontal writing) emphasizes the character in question. It is the Japanese equivalent of the use of italics for emphasis in English. ※. 2228.

  8. Half-width kana - Wikipedia

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    Half-width kana were developed as "... the first Japanese characters encoded on computers because they are used for Japanese telegrams." The Nationwide Banking Data Communication System (全国銀行データ通信システム), the largest funds transfer system in Japan, was established in 1973. Transaction messages between banks could only ...

  9. E.164 - Wikipedia

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    ITU-T E.123 entitled Notation for national and international telephone numbers, e-mail addresses and web addresses provides guidance when printing E.164 telephone numbers. This format includes the recommendation of prefixing international telephone numbers with a plus sign and using only spaces for digit grouping.