Multi-row Japanese Medal Bars

Unknown colonel (see also https://asiamedals.info/threads/japanese-ribbon-bars-on-cavaliers.22975/#post-352161)

Amazing set of two medal bars with Nomonhan Incident.
Note that upper medal hanger is a very rare early type.

 

Another interesting owner of two raws of medals.
Inside upper medal bar 4th class Rising Sun order, 5th class Golden Kite order, Prussian order of the Crown, Imperial Russia Order of St.Anna and Italian order of Mauritius and Lazarus.

 

Lieutenant General Gaishi Nagaoka/長岡外史 陸軍中将

Gaishi Nagaoka (長岡 外史, May 13, 1858 - April 21 , 1933) Japanese air force commander and pioneer of aviation, whose mustache measured 20 inches from tip to tip, was born Suō Province in 1858. His father, San'emon Hori (堀 三右衛門, Hori Sanemon), was an adopted son of Nanyo Nagaoka (長岡 南陽, Nagaoka...

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Japanese medal bars mounted "im deutschen Stil"

It is well known fact that during its early days Imperial Japanese Army intensively oriented its organization along Prusso-German lines when building a modern fighting force from late 1870s to about early 1910s . From 1886 to April 1890, it hired German military advisors (Major Jakob Meckel...

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Colonel Sakamoto /阪本大佐/.

 

General Toyohiko Yoshida (1873-1951) https://asiamedals.info/threads/nat...on-of-mechanization-badges.26504/#post-358228

 

Unknown captain.

1st row: 4th Golden Kite/4th Rising Sun order/4th Sacred Treasure order/ Russo-Japanese War medal/.

2nd row: First Sino-Japanese War medal/Boxer Rebellion medal/Japanese Red Cross Society medal/.

 

Unidentified Lieutenant General.

 

Lieutenant-General Saburo Endo/遠藤三郎 陸軍中将

Saburō Endō /January 2, 1893; October 11, 1984/. Promotions 1937-08-02 Colonel 1939-08-01 Major-General 1942-12-01 Lieutenant-General Service 1932-08-08 – 1934-08-01 Chief of Manoeuvres Section, Kwantung Army 1934-08-01 – 1936-08-01 Instructor at the War College...

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Unknown major general with two-row medal bar.

 

Admirals Yeisuke Yamamoto and Mineo Osumi https://asiamedals.info/threads/admiral-mineo-osumi.24864/

 

Viscount Yoshitami Matsudaira, the last Imperial Household Minister and the first Director-General of the Imperial Household Office of Japan (1882–1948).
Note that there is not a single Japanese order on him.

 

Japanese Officers and Officials with Imperial Russian Awards

https://asiamedals.info/threads/lieutenant-general-gaishi-nagaoka.26132 Note that his St.Stanislaus for Non-Christians lost all its grids.

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Rare and interesting photo from the period of WW1.

Unknown Red Cross naval employee also wears Medal of French Red Cross /Societe de Secours aux Blesses Militaires/ and Royal Order of Cambodia https://asiamedals.info/forums/cambodia.536/