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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 25238240, member: 15588&quot;]You are correct on the date, it&#039;s 大正九年 &quot;Taisho kyuu nen&quot; or 1920. This dates back to when Japanese read right to left, which changed sometime around 1954, I believe.</p><p><br /></p><p>the top characters are 参加 or &quot;Sanka&quot; read right to left (it looked like Katakana at first and it threw me).</p><p><br /></p><p>The rows down the reverse show &quot;Shidans&quot; or &quot;Divisions&quot;</p><p>第十八師團 - 18th Shidan</p><p>第十二師團 - 12th Shidan</p><p>第六師團 - 6th Shidan</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of the Kanji may also be archaic as well, which might make it harder to read, even for ChatGPT or Google Translate. I think 團 may be archaic and now written as 団.</p><p><br /></p><p>The highly stylized characters on the observe would take far longer to figure out, but they do look identical to the other medal posted:</p><p><br /></p><p>特別大演習記念章</p><p><br /></p><p>which gave me a translation of &quot;special grand exercise memorial chapter.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>If I search in Japanese by those characters I see pages that describe Army memorial medals, i.e., &quot;Army Special Exercise Commemorative Medal.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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