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Message:: [QUOTE="hontonai, post: 1505448, member: 4703"]The face appears to be a genuine Bank of Japan 10 yen note, of a style issued from December 15, 1943 to March 2, 1946, known as the "Second Wake" series.  Genuine notes are 81mm x 142mm. I can't determine from the picture whether you have a genuine note that has had the ink washed off the back in order to print an anti-government tirade about high taxes being wasted, or a propaganda piece with a copy of a banknote on one side, but if I had to guess, I'd say it's the former.  (The various tears and folds have me convinced that the pictures really are of the same piece of paper.) The three-character line at the far right is "go sen en", meaning "5,000 yen".  The remaining text criticizes the military spending.  My Beautiful Bride, who was a teenager in Northeastern Japan when that note was in circulation during, and for several months following, World War II, had never heard of a seditious group such as the one which is apparently responsible for creating this unusual piece of propaganda, but the Kompetai (Japanese secret police of the time) were very efficient at preventing the spread of such activities.[/QUOTE]