Japan, Occupied Manchukuo. A National Shrine Foundation Medal, C.1940 Newly Listed Many of these were presented

Many of these were presented as presents to Native leaders of tribes to encourage their loyalty

(Koppelschlöss)

constructed of a card stock binding with a faux brown leather exterior liner

6th Army Training

painted in red

Japan, Occupied Manchukuo. A National Shrine Foundation Medal, C.1940 Newly Listed Many of these were presentedInstituted 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