China overprint ・Chrysanthemum Series 3 Issued on August 1900 (Meiji33) In 1895 (Meiji 28), Japan won the Sino-Japanese War. Japan continued to station troops in mainland China to promote civilian local economic activity. In November 1899 (Meiji 32), by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Communications, stamps sold in Korea and China from January 1900 will be overprinted with "Korea" or "China". The reason is that at that time, the prevailing rate of Korean and Chinese currencies was about 20% lower than that of Japanese yen, so there were cases where Japanese stamps were bought in the local currency and repurchased at the Japanese post office. As a preventive measure, reprint stamps were issued. Therefore, these overprint stamps could not be used in Japan. Korean overprint stamps were abolished in 1901, but Chinese overprint stamps have been able to achieve the Japanese currency distribution network in China for a considerable period of time even after the real control of southern Manchuria was achieved by the victory of the Russo-Japanese War. It was used until 1922 (Taisho 11) because it was difficult to reach.