J008557 1914-1920 WAR MEDAL. The 1 3/16" diameter bronze medal features, to its obverse, two crossed Rising Sun flags (for the Army and Navy) beneath a sixteen-lobed Imperial Chrysanthemum, with Paulownia flowers and leaves arching along the base. To its reverse are embossed three columns of kanji characters, which translate to "Taisho era 3rd-9th Years War" (1914-1920). This is in reference to the Japanese involvement in the first world war, and beyond it to include actions in Siberia (Japanese troops, following the Bolshevik revolution, occupied Vladivostok until 1922). A swiveling hanger is connected to its top, which is itself then connected to a swiveling horizontal bar, through which the ribbon is looped. To the bar are four, horizontally arranged kanji characters, translating to "War Medal." The 1 7/16" wide, watered silk ribbon has three equal, vertical stripes to it, in navy blue, white, and navy blue. The ribbon is moderately age soiled, and has, to its reverse, some edge fraying and glue remnants. The medal itself appears to have had a protective lacquer applied to it, and it exhibits age darkening to its recesses.

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