Japan
From two fans who visited Jan van Haasteren (Anja en Rita - gekvanjvh) we heard the news, that in Japan his puzzles were already being produced as early as 1982. There was a series of at least 8 different images, but there might have been more. They have images of three boxes: nr 6 World Cup, nr 7 Unching and nr 8 Gambler, images below.