in various textures interlaced with black threading
Boy 1st Class in July 1901 and Ordinary Seaman in May 1903
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)
and inherited four river monitors from the Austro-Hungarian Navy
Japan, Occupied Manchukuo. A National Shrine Foundation Medal, C.1940 certificate_of_authenticity in various textures interlaced withInstituted in 1940. In silver, measuring 30. 5 mm in diameter, scattered tarnishing, light contact, original ribbon with hook and eye, better than very fine. Footnote: In 1935, the Special Service Bureau of the Kwantung Army announced plans to build a Shinto shine in Manchukuo, to ""promote friendship between Japan and Manchukuo, and dedicated to the Sun Goddess, the Emperor Meiji, and the Manchu ancestors"". During the war years, the Japanese Army