I don't know for sure about the symbol, but these are
Japanese Occupation of Burma I believe.
These are regular Japanese stamps.
They are regular Japanese Commemoratives issues in 1942 that celebrate the "Fall of Singapore" Britain's Unsinkable Battleship. So called because the thinking was that it was not attackable from the Malayan jungles at the otherwise well defended city's rear. Yet the Japanese troops did invade the Malaya peninsula and traveled south, often using bicycles to travel the jungle trails.
The city's defensive guns were only able to fire seaward against an attack and could not traverse the rest of the directions,. Arriving at the City's north (land side), the Japanese seized the city's water supply and Singapore is in history alongside the "Maginot Line," "Corrigador," "Dien Bien Phu" and "Fortress Europa."
With the sinking of the "Prince of Wales" and the "Repulse", under the command of UK's admiral Tom Phillips, the city's fate was sealed.
I don't claim to know much Japanese, but, to answer the OP's question, the symbol refered to reads as "Dai" and means great or large. The three characters at right, reading from right to left, would be spoken as "Dai Nippon" and translate roughly as "Great Japan".
Jan
I stand corrected;
thanks Nigel and Charlie!
I look at the back of my Scott's catalog and it shows a small series of symbols that end up with what looks like 4 fingers pointing downward.
Is that the way to identify stamps of Japanese occupation?
re: Japanese Occupied stamps
I don't know for sure about the symbol, but these are
Japanese Occupation of Burma I believe.
re: Japanese Occupied stamps
These are regular Japanese stamps.
re: Japanese Occupied stamps
They are regular Japanese Commemoratives issues in 1942 that celebrate the "Fall of Singapore" Britain's Unsinkable Battleship. So called because the thinking was that it was not attackable from the Malayan jungles at the otherwise well defended city's rear. Yet the Japanese troops did invade the Malaya peninsula and traveled south, often using bicycles to travel the jungle trails.
The city's defensive guns were only able to fire seaward against an attack and could not traverse the rest of the directions,. Arriving at the City's north (land side), the Japanese seized the city's water supply and Singapore is in history alongside the "Maginot Line," "Corrigador," "Dien Bien Phu" and "Fortress Europa."
With the sinking of the "Prince of Wales" and the "Repulse", under the command of UK's admiral Tom Phillips, the city's fate was sealed.
re: Japanese Occupied stamps
I don't claim to know much Japanese, but, to answer the OP's question, the symbol refered to reads as "Dai" and means great or large. The three characters at right, reading from right to left, would be spoken as "Dai Nippon" and translate roughly as "Great Japan".
Jan
re: Japanese Occupied stamps
I stand corrected;
thanks Nigel and Charlie!