Honoring a Dead Japanese Soldier

Information Requests, Japan, Photo Galleries, Stories of Service | 1 comment

Please Help Us Find And Return These Photos to His Family

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  1. Dave Deatherage on January 27, 2019 at 3:39 pm

    I can’t read Japanese but the stamped numbers (19. 5. 2) on the back of the photo of the young woman appear to be a date stamp in Japanese “Showa” date format. The number 19 means the 19th year of Emporer Hirohito’s reign which is 1944. The other two numbers are month & day; so 19. 5 2 = May 2, 1944.

    (I learned about Showa dates while reading the prison records of Allied POWs of the Japanese)

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