Japanese Officers and Civil Officials with British Awards

Japanese Officers and Officials with Republic of China Awards

Unidentified cavalier of Striped Tigers order (he is also wearing inside his medal bar British DSC and French Croix de Guerre).

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Cavalier of Distinguished Service Cross.

 

Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.

 

Japanese Officers and Officials with Imperial Russian Awards

Kenkichi Yoshizawa with 2nd class St. Stanislaus order for non-christians. https://asiamedals.info/threads/awards-of-46th-foreign-minister-of-japan-kenkichi-yoshizawa.23143/

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General Masataro Fukuda with the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (awarded on February 3, 1917).

1st class St.Stanislaus and St.Anna Orders for Non-Christians awarded to General Masataro Fukuda

1st class St. Stanislaus order for Non-Christians made by Eduard workshop. Permission to accept and to wear /受領及と佩用スルヲ免許セラル - lit. license to accept and use/ order of the Saint Stanislaus 1st class by His Majesty the Tsar of Russia /露西亜国皇帝陛下ヨー贈與ル神聖スタニスラス第 一等勲章/ was issued on July 6, 1914...

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Non-Christians with Russian Imperial Orders for Christians

It is widely - and wrongly - believed that all Non-Christians were awarded only and only with Non-Christians versions of Russian Imperial orders, while in fact they were allowed to choose between two versions (for Christians/for Non-Christians) of the order. "Mohammedans and other persons of...

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Order of the British Empire (most likely Officer cross) + Military Cross.

 

Lieutenant-General Hisao Tani/谷寿夫 陸軍中将

Lieutenant-General Hisao Tani (December 23 , 1882 - April 26 , 1947) was born in Okayama, Japan in 1882. He graduated from the Japanese Army Academy in 1903, entering the artillery. At the rank of Sub-lieutenant, he saw action during the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War with the 1st Guards Regiment...

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Repaired Orders of the Golden Kite

Unusual approach to ring refitting. Ribbon (looks like the ribbon pin was also repaired). Case.

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Multi-row Japanese Medal Bars

Unidentified colonel (see also https://asiamedals.info/threads/japanese-ribbon-bars-on-cavaliers.22975/#post-352161). Amazing set of two medal bars with Nomonhan Incident. Note that upper medal hanger is a very rare early type.

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Major general with Military Cross.

 

Japanese medal bars mounted "im deutschen Stil"

It is well known fact that during its early days Imperial Japanese Army intensively oriented its organization along Prusso-German lines when building a modern fighting force from late 1870s to about early 1910s . From 1886 to April 1890, it hired German military advisors (Major Jakob Meckel...

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Vice Admiral Funakoshi Kajishiro /舟越 楫四郎; September 23 , 1870 - October 30 , 1962.

 

Unidentified lieutenant general with order of the British Empire and Distinguished Service order. He is also wearing Polish Polonia Restituta commander's cross with the breast star, Spanish order of Military Merit with white decoration /con distintivo blanco/ - for actions, deeds or distinguished service during missions or ordinary or extraordinary service in the armed forces or in connection with defense of the country.

 

Baron Katō Sadakichi with 2nd class Saint Vladimir order with Swords for Non-Christians

Very rare set. Looks like officially issued "Kapitul" Eduard-made set. Baron Katō Sadakichi /加藤定吉, also known as Katō Teikichi, 19 December 1861 – 5 September 1927/ was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War I.

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Major General with impressive selection of British orders: Royal Victorian Order, Order of the Indian Empire and Distinguished Service Order.

 

General Yamanashi Hanzo with the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George.

General Yamanashi Hanzō/山梨半造 陸軍大将

Yamanashi Hanzō (山梨 半造, 6 April 1864 – 2 July 1944) was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, Army Minister and Governor-General of Korea from 1927 to 1929. A native of Osumi District in Sagami Province (part of the present-day city of Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture), Yamanashi graduated...

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Admiral Kataoka Shichirō/片岡七郎 海軍大将

Baron Kataoka Shichirō (片岡 七郎, 12 January 1854 – 11 January 1920) was born to a samurai family in the Satsuma domain (present day Kagoshima prefecture), Kataoka entered the 3rd class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1871, and served as a midshipman on the corvette Tsukuba. Kataoka...

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Baron Takahira Kogorō/高平小五郎 男爵

Baron Takahira Kogorō /高平 小五郎, 29 January 1854 – 28 November 1926/ was born in what is now Ichinoseki city, Iwate prefecture. In 1876, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His first posting to the United States in 1879 was as an attaché; and he was promoted to secretary in 1881. During a...

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Japanese Officers with Chilean Awards

General Kazushige Ugaki https://asiamedals.info/threads/general-kazushige-ugaki.22872/

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