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10 Yen - Government bond Issue 8
| Issuer | Government of the Greater Japanese Empire |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Size | 281 x 127 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on cream paper, the obverse carries vignettes of Imperial Japanese military hardware — a warship, a tank, and an aircraft — arranged across the face, evoking the Greater East Asia War theme. Vertical Japanese text columns set the bond title, denomination, and ministerial authority, with a red official seal of the Minister of Finance applied at right. A red post office sale overprint stamp appears at upper right. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 |
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Japan's wartime domestic bond issues from 1943 were mechanisms for mobilizing civilian savings under increasingly coercive conditions — by this point the government had effectively made bond subscription quasi-mandatory through neighborhood associations (tonarigumi). The physical size of this note is unusually generous for a domestic instrument, a deliberate choice to accommodate dense text covering redemption terms and interest schedules printed directly on the face.
The National Printing Bureau had been producing government securities since the Meiji period and retained the contract throughout the Pacific War, even as paper quality degraded noticeably across the 1943–1945 run. This eighth series issue predates the worst of those shortages.