Japan Badges of everlasting friendship and unbreakable unions

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Uknown cavalier

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Gebietsführer Reinhold Schulze together with Junebannführer Rolf Redeker

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Back in Germany together with Ribbentrop

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Meanwhile in Germany ...

Japanese youth leaders attend the 1938 NSDAP Party Day

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Now this quasi rare (since there were only 6 participants) badge from 1940.

Beautiful

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Badge dimension

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Stammführer Walter Krömer and his 1940 badge

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For more info about these badges see Wilhelm P.B.R. Saris (2005) The German-Japanese Youth Exchnage Badges: A known and unknown oddity. Military Advisor, Fall, pp. 18-29.

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Thanks for the info, Nick. I guess the 1944 badges were what I had before--it has been so many years that I forgot.

Looks like that magazine has some cool stuff!

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Yep. Nice journal indeed.

Unfortunately not many articles devoted to japanese phaleristics ...

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Official site of this journal

http://www.bender-publishing.com/The-Latest-Military-Advisor.html

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Manchu badges

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Interesting silver jetton (attribution is more than welcomed )

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Ladies friendship society

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No attribution for this one

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