Original Japanese WWII U.S. Captured Imperial Japanese Merchant Marine Officer’s Forage Cap - Rare Price_$-050 - $200 It is dark and well

It is dark and well rounded from handling

on the narrow sides of the scabbard

and shows signs of being reinforced around one chinstrap securing loop

received orders to return to Hawaii

9 June 1944

Original Japanese WWII U.S. Captured Imperial Japanese Merchant Marine Officer’s Forage Cap - Rare Price_$-050 - $200 It is dark and wellOriginal Item: Only One Available. In 1868, after the Meiji Restoration, the Japanese shipping industry was released from its national isolationism policy and began to divert from conventional coastal navigation to ocean going shipping. At this stage the Japanese economy was just starting to industrialize, much later than the great world powers. Because of lagging so far behind, machinery and equipment, as well as raw materials necessary for