One of my favourite countries for collecting (but not listing!) is Japan. The stamps are very well designed and fairly inexpensive. They also give us a window into a very different culture.
But listing them is a nightmare! Few are dated or have English text that gives a clue! It often takes a fair bit of searching to find them before listing them on the website. An additional complication are the prefectural issues, similar to the UK's regionals, which aren't obviously any different than the normal Japanese stamps but are listed separately.
But I'll keep going - I have a couple of hundred more to list which will probably take a week or more to do. Always worth a look if you collect, are considering collecting - or simply if you want to look at stamp design at its best!
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