In Japan, you can find automatic vending machines for soft drinks everywhere.
Varieties of plastic-bottled or canned drinks including coffee, tea, Japanese green tea (both hot and cold), cola and other drinks, (sometimes even hot soup!) are available for 120 yen-150 yen at any time.
I bought New Year's greeting cards at the post office yesterday.
On the message side, a rabbit that is the next year's oriental zodiac animal is depicted, and on the other side that the recipient's address and name should be written, you can see the lottery numbers.
The draw takes place in mid-January. If you have a card(or cards)with winning numbers, you will get an equivalent article to the rank of your lottery number.
However, in Japan, there is a practice that you don't send and receive New Year cards if some one in your family died during the year.