Japanese invasion money

A photographer kneels on a street littered with invasion money, Rangoon, 1945.

Japanese invasion money, officially known as Southern Development Bank Notes (Japanese: 大東亜戦争軍票 Dai Tō-A Sensō gunpyō, "Greater East Asia War military scrip"), was currency issued by the Japanese Military Authority, as a replacement for local currency after the conquest of colonies and other states in World War II.[1]

  1. ^ Modern Japanese Financial History as Seen Through Its Currency - 3.6 The Wartime Economic System