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B yen (B円, B en) was a colloquial term used to refer to a form of military scrip used in post-war US-Occupied Okinawa from April 15, 1946, to September 1958. [1] [2] Officially, it was called B type military scrip (B型軍票, B-gata gunpyō). [3]
The GI war against Japan : American soldiers in Asia and the Pacific during World War II. New York, NY: New York University Press. ISBN 9780814798164. Sugita, Yoneyuki (2003). Pitfall or Panacea: The Irony of U.S. Power in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-94752-9.. Takemae, Eiji (2002).
A sukajan (スカジャン), also known as souvenir jacket or tour jacket, is a type of satin blouse jacket often embroidered with orientalist motifs that originated in post-World War II occupied Japan. Modeled after varsity jackets, they were originally a souvenir created by Japanese craftspeople for American servicemen stationed in
The territories controlled or occupied by Japan had many different currencies. Taiwan maintained its own banking system and bank notes after it came under Japanese sovereignty in 1895. The same is true for Korea post 1910. Between 1931 and 1945, large parts of China and South East Asia were occupied by Japan.
Reason: Japan lost World War II. Ratio: The occupation currency became worthless. The value of the pre-occupation currency was restored. Preceded by: Sarawak dollar Location: present day Sarawak, Malaysia Reason: fall of Borneo in the hands of Japan in World War II. Ratio: at par with the Malayan dollar: Currency of the Kingdom of Sarawak 1942 ...
Yashima Resort, Japan: After. Economic hard times beginning in the early 1990s led to the shutdown of the entire village, leaving behind gift shop collectibles and furniture-filled hotels stuck in ...
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.
Occupied territories/client states in lighter red. Korea, Taiwan, and Karafuto (South Sakhalin) were integral parts of Japan. Maximum extent of the Japanese empire. This is a list of regions occupied or annexed by the Empire of Japan until 1945, the year of the end of World War II in Asia, after the surrender of Japan.