Japan light blue medal of honour

[mickey]

hi all I recently purchased this medal of honour dated 1952 may the 1st to matsuzawa masakatsu I normally only collect ww2 or earlier  Japanese items but have found it difficult to find a medal from this period but I found out from rich catalanos research that only 403 medal of honour (all colours) were issued in 1952 so it makes it a bit scarce I think, does anyone know or is there a reference as to the number of light blue medals issued that year thanks

[fukuoka]

It was 101. See my colorful chart at the bottom of this page

http://imperialjapanmedalsandbadges.com/moreinfo3.html

 

Rich

[mickey]

excellent thanks rich