Jananese Signiture On A 10 Shilling Note

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trout1105 Pillar of the Community Australia 7096 Posts	Posted 03/27/2011 11:40 pm Hi all, I got this today. Most of the hand signed notes I have come accross have had aussie signitures. These notes were around when our blokes were locked up in jap camps during ww2, I wonder If a guard signed it or one of our blokes put the name down on it in english and Japanese of one of the more vicious jailers. Report this Post to the Staff

sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21788 Posts	Posted 03/28/2011 12:41 am I would like to think that not all Japanese soldiers were cruel. For a Japanese to sign a note that was issued in 1939, it tempting to suggest that some were friendlier than we are normally led to believe. This note, however may not have been in a military situation, judging from it's condition. This note could have been in diplomatic situation, or be the property of an Australian in Japan soon after the war. All that I have written here is pure speculation on my part. Whatever the case, that note has a story to tell. Pity banknotes don't speak! Report this Post to the Staff
trout1105 Pillar of the Community Australia 7096 Posts	Posted 03/28/2011 01:12 am I agree with you about all jap soldiers not being cruel. But I can just imagine one of the blokes winessing something nasty and putting the perpetrators name down on somthing that woulden't get thrown away so that one day justice can be served. But thats just my imagination going haywire. If notes and coins could tell their stories we wouldn't need books or tv's ever again Report this Post to the Staff
Peter THOMAS Pillar of the Community Australia 2830 Posts	Posted 03/28/2011 06:50 am HASHIMOTO seems to be a name that comes up with some frequency, in the WW2 context, and otherwise. But, after trawling 20 pages of Google, I couldn't spot it matched with anything similar to "Ja Dao". The left-most character in the (apparently) Japanese script, it seems to me, bears quite a resemblance to a gallows. Maybe that's just my imagination running wild ? A story waiting to be told ... Edited by Peter THOMAS 03/28/2011 07:06 am Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16830 Posts	Posted 03/28/2011 07:47 am This note is an Allied note; as such it would have been confiscated from Allied POWs upon capture; anyone caught keeping one in the camps would probably have been dealt with severely. I think the story of this note is more likely to be found in the Allied POW and civilian internment camps here in Australia. Which would also be more consistent with him putting the English version of his name. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
Peter THOMAS Pillar of the Community Australia 2830 Posts	Posted 03/28/2011 08:20 am SAP makes interesting points. But I thought that "we" forbade enemy prisoners from having real money, hence the issue of "Internment" coinage. Perhaps that only relates to "enemy aliens" who found themselves detained, as opposed to PoW's in the strict sense ? Report this Post to the Staff
gxseries Pillar of the Community Australia 3831 Posts	Posted 05/01/2011 7:47 pm It's Tadao, not Jadao. æ©‹æœ¬å¿ e›„ Hashimoto, Tadao or the other way around in English, Hashimoto being the family name. My partial coin collection http://www.omnicoin.com/collection/gxseries My numismatics articles and collection: http://www.gxseries.com/numis/numis_index.htm Regularly updated at least once a month. Report this Post to the Staff
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