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Japan
Post, the Japanese postal service, accepts letters with English-language,
Western-format addresses. Based on this format, Bionanome's
record format contains as many as seven lines, semi-colon
delimited, each of which may contain up to 40+ characters,
including spaces.
Therefore, Bionanome recommends a 10-point font and the Avery
5162 (or compatible) label, which measures 1.33" (H) x 4"
(W). The metric equivalent is the Avery L7162, which measures,
in mm, 33.9 (H) x 99.1 (W).
Bionanome
Record Format:
[given
name] [surname], [title]
[company/university/organization]
[department]
[address 1]
[address 2 (if necessary)]
[city], [prefecture]
[zip] [country]
Example:
Takeshi
MATSUDA, Professor
Japan University
Dept of Nanotechnology
Central 4, 1-1-1, Higashi
Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Pref
305-8562 JAPAN
Bionanome
Format Notes:
The
Japanese prefecture (abbreviated Pref) is equivalent to the
U.S. state or the Canadian province. Because the Japanese
zip code itself pinpoints the location, the prefecture need
not be specified, if label space is a consideration.
Japanese
addresses frequently contain one or more field-delimiting
commas on the same line. For this reason, Bionanome's text
files use the semicolon (;) as the field delimiter in each
record.
Japanese cities usually are not laid out in a rectilinear
grid, so the addressing system differs from those familiar
to Westerners. This is complicated by the facts that only
main streets have names and buildings are numbered chronologically
rather than sequentially.
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