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A photographer kneels on a street littered with invasion money, Rangoon, 1945. Japanese invasion money, officially known as Southern Development Bank Notes (Japanese: 大東亜戦争軍票 Dai Tō-A Sensō gunpyō, "Greater East Asia War military scrip"), was currency issued by the Japanese Military Authority, as a replacement for local currency after the conquest of colonies and other states ...
Japanese invasion money – Various other currencies issued in territories occupied by Japan; Allied Military Currency – Currency issued by the Allied powers during World War II; Banknotes of the British Armed Forces – Currency issued by the British Armed Forces from 1946 to 1972; Military payment certificate – Currency issued by the U.S ...
Japanese Allied Military Currency (A yen and B yen) - used in Korea, issued for use in Japan but then demonetized there before they could be used [5] The majority of the notes were printed by the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing, with some were printed by the Soviet Union and by the Japanese Ministry of Finance.
Japanese currency has a history covering the period from the 8th century CE to the present. ... American occupation forces used a parallel system, called B yen, ...
The Japanese military also issued some of these notes in the Korean Empire as "special occupation currency". [11] The Treaty of Portsmouth formally ended the Russo-Japanese War on September 5, 1905. [12] As Russo-Japanese War military bonds were not permitted to circulate in Japan, they "obtained wide currency" in Korea and Manchuria. [13]
During World War II in the Philippines, the occupying Japanese government issued a fiat currency in several denominations; this is known as the Japanese government–issued Philippine peso (see also Japanese invasion money). [1] The Japanese government outlawed possession of guerrilla currency, and declared a monopoly on the issuance of money ...
The Japanese dollar was one of several forms of Japanese invasion money issued throughout the newly expanded Empire of Japan. Similar currencies were issued in Burma (as the Japanese rupee ), the Dutch East Indies (as the Japanese gulden/roepiah ), the Philippines (as the Japanese peso ) and various Melanesian and Polynesian territories (as the ...
The Japanese invasion money used in the Netherlands Indies was first denominated in guilder (1942) [17] and later in Roepiah (1944–45). [18] The guilder issue bears the payment obligation "De Japansche Regeering Betaalt Aan Toonder" (The Japanese Government pays to the bearer) on notes one-half guilder and above. [19]