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Currency: 1 yen = 100 sen = 1000 rin

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Fiscal Stamps

1873 Bills of exchange and receipt tax, with Japanese characters resembling "E P" in the center

21 different stamps were issued in this design, some in different sizes.

1884 Bills of exchange and receipt tax

In this design exist: 5 r brown, 1 s orange, 2 s green, 5 s green, 10 s violet, 25 s blue, 50 s grey, 1 Y red.

1900 Ellliptical design

In the above design (flower on top) I have seen: 2 r orange, 3 r blue, 5 r brown, 1 s blue, 2 s green, 3 s brown and 10 s red, 1 Y blue and yellow. The values 1 r green, 5 s violet, 50 s green and red and 5 Y green and red should also exist.

1909 With large chrysantium on top

1909(?) Registration tax

In the above design I have seen: 1 s brown, 2 s 5 r, brown, 10 s brown and 1 Y blue. The values 1 r green, 5 r green, 3 s brown, 50 s brown, 2 Y blue and 5 Y blue should also exist

1883 Medicine tax

The following values exist: 1 r grey, 2 r blue, 3 r yellow, 5 r brown, 1 s brown, 2 s green, 3 s blue, 4 s orange, 5 s violet and 10 s red.

1875 onwards, tobacco tax stamps

Examples

1898 Parcel tax "EEE EEE" on top

Presumably 50 s red and 2 s green?

10 values, all in different colors were issue ranging from 1/2 s grey to 1000 s yellow.

1884 Court tax, circular design

Presumably 10 s brown and 5 s black?

9 values were issued (all in different colors), ranging from 3 s grey to 20 Y brown.

I don't know when the next fiscal stamps were issued:

(Reduced sizes)

Postcards

Inscription "JAPANESE POST" or "EMPIRE DU JAPON"

1885 Officially Sealed stamps

  5 c brown, 'GENERAL POST OFFICE OF JAPAN'
  5 c brown, 'DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICACIONS OF JAPAN'

Telegraph stamps

1885 Very small stamps, inscription "TELEGRAPHS"

(Reduced sizes)

  1 s brown
  2 (?) s red
  3 s orange
  4 s green
  5 s blue
  10 s red
  15 s brown
  25 s blue
  50 s lilac
  1 Y blue and red

These stamps were issued on 7 May 1885.

What is this? Label with inscription "IMPERIAL JAPANESE TELEGRAPH":

Japanese occupation of the Philippines

1943 Various designs

Japanese Occupation of Malaya

Examples:

Japanese Occupation of Borneo

1941 Example:

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