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Occupation stamps 5 (Buruma:myanmar 2) Issued from 1942-1944

Occupation stamps 5 (Buruma:myanmar 2) Issued from 1942-1944
Immediately after the start of the Pacific War, Japan marched on Burma (now Myanmar) in December 1941 and occupied Rangoon in March 1942. Until the stamp was made in June 1942, in order to accelerate the communication control of the occupied area, the Japanese army stamped a peacock stamp (security maintenance committee) on the stamp used locally and a provisional stamp with a new fee on the Showa stamp. , Issued Yano stamps, chairman of the postal reconstruction committee. Regular stamps were issued until 1944 (Showa 19), and became ineffective at the end of the war in August 1945. * Osamu Imai, "100 Years of Japanese Stamps", Nihon Yushu Shuppan, 1978, P168-169 Reference