*Added to how to check your numbers of the Jumbo Lottery if you win or not. Please see the details at the bottom of this page.
NHK NEWS “Year-end Lottery results were
declared”
Year-end Lottery party was held and
declared the winner’s number, that the total prize money of the 1st prize
and the numbers before and after the 1st prize
is 1 billion yen.
In this Year-end lottery, it is likely that
17 winners will receive 700 million yen as the 1st prize
and 340 winners will receive 15 million yen as the 2nd prize.
(…)
In Japan, there are a lot of lottery
stands, as you can see on the picture, near station, shopping mall, bazaar etc.
You can draw a variety of lotteries the prize money of which is from 50,000 yen
to 1,000,000,000 yen.
The above-mentioned news referred to the
“Jumbo Lottery”, the type of the highest prize money, and they are sold four
times a year. Especially those of the end of the year, it is called “Year-end
Jumbo Lottery” (also called “Nenmatsu-Jumbo-Takarakuji” in Japanese).
The others types of lotteries can be sold
every day at the lottery stand. One of the easiest, interesting and recommended
lottery is a scratch-type-lottery, which you can buy for only 300 yen.