Year-end 'jumbo' lottery ticket sales begin

TOKYO, Japan - More than 1,000 people line up to buy tickets for the year-end ''jumbo lottery'' in Tokyo's Ginza District on Nov. 25, the first day of the nationwide lottery campaign. The maximum prize in the lottery is 300 million yen.

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