August 1996, Starbucks Coffee Japan opens it's first Starbucks store outside North America in Tokyo 's Ginza district. Today the company has over 500 Japanese locations. More time-line information on Japan .

The Japanese Starbucks cards are issued with English on the front and Japanese on the back. To date, Japan has three exclusive designs including the Daruma, Dolphin and the 2005 Special Olympics cards.

Cards issued to Japan are only good at the Starbucks locations there, but still highly collectable with collectors around the world.

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