JAPAN Miscellaneous

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Currency: 1 yen = 100 sen = 1000 rin

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Fiscal Stamps

Examples:

(Reduced sizes)

(I have also seen a 1 Y blue and yellow in the same design)

In the above design I have seen: 1 s brown, 2 s 5 r, brown, 10 s brown and 1 Y blue.

(Reduced sizes)

In the above design (flower on top) I have seen: 2 r orange, 3 r blue, 5 r brown, 1 s blue, 2 s green, 3 s brown and 10 s red.

Reduced size

(Reduced sizes)

Postcards

Inscription "JAPANESE POST" or "EMPIRE DU JAPON"

1885 Officially Sealed stamps

  5 c brown, 'GENERAL POST OFFICE OF JAPAN'
  5 c brown, 'DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICACIONS OF JAPAN'

Telegraph stamps

1885 Very small stamps, inscription 'TELEGRAPHS'

(Reduced sizes)

  1 s brown
  2 (?) s red
  3 s orange
  4 s green
  5 s blue
  10 s red
  15 s brown
  25 s blue
  50 s lilac
  1 Y blue and red

These stamps were issued on 7 May 1885.

What is this? Label with inscription' IMPERIAL JAPANESE TELEGRAPH':

Japanese occupation of the Philippines

1943 Various designs

Japanese Occupation of Malaya

Examples:

Japanese Occupation of Borneo

1941 Example:

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