1935 Japan National Census Taker’s Badge/昭和十年 國勢調査徽章

Established on April 13, 1935. Badge was worn on the left chest as an enumerator ID badge. Surveyors were allowed to keep the badge after the end of survey.

Taiwan version of the badge https://asiamedals.info/threads/government-general-of-taiwan-census-takers-badges.24400/#post-364647

Size 24 mm.

Obverse

和昭十年 - 1935

國勢調査 - National Census

reverse

内閣 - Cabinet (Government; Administration)

 

Original regulation.

 

Original pin suspension.

Original case.

和昭十年 - 1935

國勢調査徽章 - National Census Badge

 

The only (known for today) manufacturer of these badges was Naigai workshop in Tokyo.

内外徽章製作所 - Naigai Medal Works.

 

Naigai workshop label variation.

 

Regulation for the rare variation of the badge https://asiamedals.info/threads/1935-japan-national-census-karafuto-prefecture-takers-badge.24430/ that I found inside Census Results Report that was published in 1935.

Instead of

内閣 - Cabinet

reverse bears

樺太廳 - Karafuto Prefecture

Karafuto became territory of the Empire of Japan in 1905 after the Russo-Japanese War when the portion of Sakhalin south of 50°N was ceded from the Russian Empire in the Treaty of Portsmouth. Karafuto was established in 1907 as an external territory until being upgraded to an "Inner Land" of the Japanese metropole in 1943. Ōtomari (Korsakov) was the capital of Karafuto from 1905 to 1908 and Toyohara (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk) from 1908 to August 1945 when the Japanese administration ceased to function in the invasion of South Sakhalin by the Soviet Union after the surrender of Japan in World War II. Karafuto Prefecture was de facto replaced with Sakhalin Oblast, although it continued to exist de jure under Japanese law until it was formally abolished as a legal entity by Japan on June 1, 1949.​

 

Appointment letter-notice as census surveyor of the the 1935 national census.
Issued on July 20, 1935.