Japanese Medals as awarded during WWII.


Japanese Order of the Golden Kite for Bravery & Merit in the Field	Veterans badge. 28 mm by 18 mm silvered shield bearing a naval anchor with a bronze star. Issued to any veteran of the war against China, Korea, Manchuria, or the Allies.	Medal for Personal Valour. Shows 3 men crawling forward with a Bangalore torpedo.	Japanese Opinion Medal

Japanese Order of the Golden Kite 6th grade. This medal was issued for bravery in combat	Japanese General Opinion medal.		Order of the Golden Kite 5th Class; breast badge
	< 1941-45 Great East Asia War medal > This medal commemorates the intervention of Japan in Second World War. About 10,000 were struck at the Osaka Mint before the war ended, but the Allied Occupation authorities ordered the destruction of the remaining stocks, so it is a very rare medal.
Imperial Edict No. 417 of 21 June 1944 promulgated this medal, that is of 30mm, struck in a gray tin-alloy. Obverse has a chrysanthemum crest in the center of crossed swords on a eight-point star of rays. The rim has engraved cherry blossoms. The reverse shows the characters "Great East Asia War" in the center of a Japanese shield. The suspender is different to those of earlier medals in the fact that it has no swivel. The bar is made apart from the suspender and passes over the ribbon, with the usual four characters for "Jugunkisho" (war medal), written left to right (not in right to left, as in earlier medals). Ribbon is 36mm watered silk, pea-green with 3mm dark blue, 3mm light blue and 3mm dark green inner edge stripes for the Navy, Air Forces and Army.