Japan, Occupied Manchukuo. A National Shrine Foundation Medal, C.1940 certificate_of_authenticity Footnote: The British Empire Exhibition

Footnote: The British Empire Exhibition was a colonial exhibition held at Wembley Park

original ribbon and as mounted on pinback medal bar with Tientsin campaign clasp

and inherited four river monitors from the Austro-Hungarian Navy

in various textures interlaced with black threading

Japan, Occupied Manchukuo. A National Shrine Foundation Medal, C.1940 certificate_of_authenticity Footnote: The British Empire ExhibitionInstituted in 1940. In silver, measuring 30. 5 mm in diameter, scattered tarnishing, light contact, original ribbon with hook and eye, better than very fine. Footnote: In 1935, the Special Service Bureau of the Kwantung Army announced plans to build a Shinto shine in Manchukuo, to ""promote friendship between Japan and Manchukuo, and dedicated to the Sun Goddess, the Emperor Meiji, and the Manchu ancestors"". During the war years, the Japanese Army