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Imperial Japanese Life Saving At Sea in Gold Cased Medal This is a very rarely encountered medal.
This is a very finely crafted deep enameled medal with a translucent blue enamel and gilded lifeboat bow center with white enamel life ring on an unfouled anchor.

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WWII Japanese Submariner Qualification Badge

This is a two-piece silver on painted copper badge. There is some slight wear to the high portions of the paint and on the back and on the flat pin.

It measures 37mm (1-1/2 inches) in diameter. That's 38mm wide and 36mm high.

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Imperial Japanese 3-3/4 inch diameter profusely marked compass.
This is a very well-made lacquered wood hand lettered compass with a suspended needle used to indicate north. The compass is completely functional.

It measures approximately 3/4 inches thick, with the central compass portion measuring 7/8 inches in diameter.

This is a view of the back, showing serial numbers and maker marks.

Those are some nice finds!

Sorry, I have not being playing at all since I restarted the working on the names project. I have you mods downloaded and installed in JSGME, but have not played recently. I've been mostly researching Japanese rank and badges. It was a tough system to follow. With several sources saying one thing and several others saying different. Different ranks, different spellings, and on top of that the system was changed shortly after WW2 began. Sources would have some ranks, but not others...It was a mess...I finally nailed down a system, I believe to be near historically correct. or at least one I am comfortable with.

When I first started this project, I too, had been looking at medals. But I put that on the very back burner for several reasons. 1. A genuine lack of information concerning awards going to naval personnel. This seems to be that the just did not get them. Zenji Orita made mention of recieving, IIRC, the Order of Merit 1st and 2nd Class and a ceremonial sword, but that was towards the end of the war. Tameichi Hara, I don't recall even mentioning any medal in his book "Japanese Destroyer Captain." Even Saburo Sakai had little to show for his tremendous effort. 2. A lack of any real specifics on what it took to earn said medals. However, I have no doubt that something can and will be worked out!

Some other Japanese medal sites:
http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-...medals-ww2.htm
http://www.xavierb.org/japan/index.html

you'll need to add a txt file in your mod with the rank equivalent, otherwise people <will get lost..

Rank equivalents will be included in a Read Me file.

It is complete and I am testing now.

Known problems are the middle initial and two first names. This is hard coded and cannot be adjusted.

Possible changes
Adjust Japanese Rank structure - I am not thrilled with the idea of my officers consisting of Midshipman, Warrant Officer, and Ensign.