Tickets for record lottery on sale

Tickets for record lottery on sale

TOKYO, Japan - People line up at a lottery booth in Tokyo's Ginza district on Feb. 14, 2012. Tickets for a public lottery, the revenue from which will be partially used to fund reconstruction from the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, went on sale the same day, with the top prize and the two prizes for adjacent numbers together worth a record 500 million yen.

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