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Who Can Join?
Membership is worldwide and open to any philatelist of ethical reputation.
Benefits of Joining
Whether your philatelic interest in Japan or related areas is recent or of long standing, and whether it is general or specialized, we think you will find membership in the ISJP beneficial and enjoyable, for reasons discussed below. It is one of the world’s largest specialist societies, with members in about thirty nations, including at least one nation on every continent.
Japan is an interesting and important country, and its stamps, postal markings, and postal stationery are well-designed and well-produced. Collectors are also attracted to Japanese philately because the possible fields of collecting are so numerous and varied. For example: classic regular issues, modern regular issues, special issues, topicals, perforation varieties, printing varieties, paper varieties, postal stationery, postal markings, covers, postal history, specimen overprints, revenues and forgeries.
Some ISJP members collect only one or a few of these; others collect most or all of them. Some collect material from all parts of the Japanese empire; others collect only Japan proper, or only Manchoukuo or Ryukyu Islands or one or more Japanese occupied areas in China or Southeast Asia. Some ISJP members are just starting a Japanese collection, others have had many years of experience in the Japanese field, and still others are somewhere in between.
Whether a member’s interests are general or specialized, the ISJP’s objective is to provide (at low cost) useful information not available elsewhere.
To Join use any of these ways:
Download and Print the Application Form
You may print the application form and mail it with remittance for US $16 payable to the ISJP (or US $49.95 if you wish the CD-Rom or Flash Drive –please specify whether you want the CD-Rom or Flash Drive) and send to ISJP, P O Box 1283, Haddonfield NJ 08033 U.S.A.
The application is in Adobe Acrobat format and can be downloaded by clicking here.
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Members Only Benefits:
Japanese Philately:
Members receive each issue of the printed copy of Japanese Philately by mail. Members’ print issues will include any new Monograph released in that year as well as an annual index. The index to the entire run of the journal, 1946 to date, is provided on this website
Current Issue Online:
Members can access the most current issue of Japanese Philately . This current issue can be read in a “flipbook” on a web page or downloaded in Adobe PDF format as soon as it is place in the mail. This will be before anyone can receive their printed copy.
Current Membership List Online:
Members can access the most current annual Membership List online. This is the only way our membership list is available.
Advertising:
Members are allowed two-free 4-line advertisements each year in Japanese Philately and additional advertising space at very low rates.
Library:
Only members can borrow from the extensive Library.
New Issue Postal Stationery:
New Issue Postal Stationery is available from the Sales Manager.
Free Digital Expertitizing Service:
For several reasons, it is impossible to determine that a stamp is genuine from a digital image. But at the same time, it is easy to recognize digital images of the common forgeries of classic Japanese stamps. More details here.