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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lettow, post: 1640758, member: 6986&quot;]My comments related specifically to the Japanese Invasion Money and the fact that it was supplemental to the indigenous currency.&nbsp; My comments have nothing to do with Japanese military or foreign policy of the era.&nbsp; You suggested that the printing of the Japanese Invasion Money was a ballsy move.&nbsp; While Japanese foreign policy of the era may very well be characterized as such, characterizing the printing of occupation currency by the Japanese as such is misplaced.&nbsp; It is consistent with the military and economic requirements of an occupier.&nbsp; It was done in WWI and by both sides during WWII in both ETO and PTO.</p><p><br /></p><p>Comparing Korea (which I have spent considerable time in) and the other areas that made up the Co-Prosperity Sphere is misplaced.&nbsp; Korea was annexed by Japan, these other areas were not.&nbsp; The Japanese goal in the Philippines, Malaya and Southeast Asia (not including Korea) was not to annex these areas but to install puppet governments controlled by Japan but made up of natives (such as the Laurel government in the Philippines) for the exploitation of their resources.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As for your reference to Wikipedia, you are sorely misguided.&nbsp; I have spent almost 30 years in the study of military numismatics and have a firm understanding of it.&nbsp; I have authored a number of articles on the subject including a study of the Japanese Invasion Money for the Philippines.&nbsp; (If you would like a copy of General Hommas decree regarding the circulation of the Japanese Military Peso and the fact that the Commonwealth peso and the US dollar remained legal tender in the Philippines during the war I will be glad to provide it.)</p><p><br /></p><p>It is even more annoying to be called out by someone who knows nothing about me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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