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スマトラ 1 << 1943年(昭和18年) >> 7-5-16

Occupation stamps 13 (Sumatra1 ) Issued from 1943

Occupation stamps 13 (Sumatra1 ) Issued from 1943 In December 1941, with the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese army began fighting with the Allied Forces of the Philippines, and by June 9, 1942, the Allied Forces surrendered and the battle ended. Prior to that, in March 1942, the Philippine government began postal services at the direction of the Japanese Army. Initially, overprint stamps were issued on local stamps. PositiveStamps were manufactured and issued by the Cabinet Printing Bureau of Japan from April 1943 (Showa 18). Those stamps became ineffective at the end of the war in August 1945. * Osamu Imai, "100 Years of Japanese Stamps", Nihon Yushu Shuppan, 1978, P169-170 Reference