Jiandao Temporary Expeditionary Force Dispatch Commemorative Watch Fob/琿香支隊間島臨時派遣隊出征記念章

Watch fob with similar design of obverse https://asiamedals.info/threads/193...vers-participation-commemorative-badge.24259/

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出征記念 - Dispatch Commemorative

間島臨時派遣隊 - Jiandao Temporary Expeditionary Force

琿香支隊 - Houka Detachment

After the Mukden Incident of 1931, the Japanese military (the Kwantung Army) invaded Manchuria. Between 1931 and 1945, Manchuria was under the control of Manchukuo, a Japanese puppet state. From 1934 the area formed a new Jiandao Province of Manchukuo after the old Jilin Province was split into Binjiang, Jiandao and a rump Jilin. This period initiated a new wave of Korean immigration, as the Japanese government actively encouraged (or forced) Korean settlement in order to colonize and develop the region. The Japanese also moved to suppress resistance in the region. Within three and half years (from September 1931 to March 1935), Japanese regular forces and police murdered 4520 people.

Related watch fob https://asiamedals.info/threads/jia...mmemorative-watch-fob-1933.25979/#post-356521 ; https://asiamedals.info/threads/74t...andao-dispatch-commemorative-watch-fob.26939/

In December 1938, a counterinsurgency unit called the Gando Special Force was organized by the Japanese Kwantung Army to combat communist guerrillas within the region. The top commander of this battalion-size force was Japanese. Historian Philip Jowett noted that during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria, the Gando Special Force had "earned a reputation for brutality and was reported to have laid waste to large areas which came under its rule."​

 

Salty specimen.

 

Specimen in near mint condition and with suspension.

Height 63 mm.
Width 36 mm.
Thickness 3 mm.
Weight 18.7 g.