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A 1967 stamp of Japan featuring a painting of Mount Fuji. The story of Japan's postal system with its postage stamps and related postal history goes back centuries. The country's first modern postal service got started in 1871, with mail professionally travelling between Kyoto and Tokyo as well as the latter city and Osaka.
Saluting aviator on 15 sen stamp from 1942. The Japanese Empire issued its first postage stamps in April 1871. In 1896 the first persons to be depicted on a stamp were Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa (1847–1895) and Prince Arisugawa Taruhito (1835–1895) in honor of their role in the First Sino-Japanese War that ended one year earlier.
Dr. Soichi Ichida wrote extensively on Japanese classic stamps. His works include “The Dragon Stamps of Japan 1871–1872” in 1959, “The Cherry Blossom Issues of Japan 1872–1876” in 1965 and for which he was awarded the Crawford Medal in 1966. He also wrote “The Six Sen Violet Brown Native Paper Stamp 1874.”
Alphonse Marie Tracey Woodward (Réunion, 1876–1938) [1] was a philatelist who was a specialist in the stamps of Japan. In 1929, he was awarded the Crawford Medal by the Royal Philatelic Society London for his work The postage stamps of Japan and dependencies. [2] He was also awarded the Lindenberg Medal. [1]
Prewar 10-sen Japanese stamp, illustrating the Hakkō ichiu and the 2600th anniversary of the Empire. Like Nazi Germany's demands for Lebensraum, Japanese propaganda complained of being kept trapped in its own home waters. [25] Hakkō ichiu, "to bring the eight corners of the world under one roof", added a religious overtone to the theme. [25]
Yano Stamp (1942) The Yano Stamp was temporarily issued in 1942 during World War II in Japanese-occupied Burma.During the fighting, printed stamps stocked in Rangoon by the British Burmese government were looted, and the personal seal of Shizuo Yano (矢野静雄, "矢野" is the family name), then chairman of the Burmese Postal Reconstruction Committee, was stamped in red ink on a piece of ...
Alexander wrote articles on specific aspects and postal issues of Japanese philately. He was a founder of the International Society for Japanese Philately in 1946 and once served as its president during his forty years with the society. He was also editor and contributor to Japanese Philately from 1950 to 1955.
Postage stamps and postal history of Japan; Postage stamps and postal history of Ryukyu Islands; S. Sakura catalog; W. Yoshio Watanabe (philatelist) A. M. Tracey Woodward
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