Please Help Us Find And Return These Photos to His Family
Honoring a Dead Japanese Soldier
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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)