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Post  sepid Mon 05 Jan 2015, 2:44 am

Hello,
these picture of japanese uniforms and official dresses are from a uniforms chart, which comprises uniforms of japanese army, navy, police and court as well. Can anyone identify organisations, to which these uniforms and dresses belongs?
Thank you.

https://i.servimg.com/u/f38/18/43/16/56/2015-013.jpg
https://i.servimg.com/u/f38/18/43/16/56/2015-014.jpg
https://i.servimg.com/u/f38/18/43/16/56/2015-015.jpg

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Post  wfrad Mon 05 Jan 2015, 9:17 am

Looks like;
First image, Kanto government officials.
Second image, customs above and below national railways.
Third image, I believe to be court dress.
Japan like Germany, had a great many uniformed organizations, not just in Japan but also in Korea.

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Post  sepid Tue 06 Jan 2015, 9:02 am

Many thanks!
Meanwhile I found:
First image above - this uniform was being used in Korea, at least between 1907 and 1910. See uniforms of residents-general Hirobumi Itō: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ito_Hirobumi.jpg ,
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ito_Hirobumi3.jpg ,
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prince_Ito_and_Crown_Prince_of_Korea.jpg
and Arasuke Sone: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sone_Arasuke.jpg .
First image, in the middle - this uniform belongs to japanese colonial officials in Taiwan (1899 design). See (page is in Chinese): http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%87%BA%E7%81%A3%E7%B8%BD%E7%9D%A3%E5%BA%9C%E6%96%87%E5%AE%98%E6%9C%8D%E8%A3%9D .
First image, below - this uniform belongs to japanese Kanto government officials.
Second image, third line below (under railways uniforms) - this uniform probably belongs to port administration.

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Post  wfrad Wed 07 Jan 2015, 4:27 am

For this link  {http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%87%BA%E7%81%A3%E7%B8%BD%E7%9D%A3%E5%BA%9C%E6%96%87%E5%AE%98%E6%9C%8D%E8%A3%9D} I've found google translator a little hit and miss regarding accuracy, although it does come up with some amusing alternatives.
The plug-in Quick Translator makes a little bit more sense out of the pages but this is still not anywhere near a 100%.
Has anyone found the perfect translator?

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Post  sepid Wed 07 Jan 2015, 5:47 am

I also used Google Translator and compared the translation of this text from Chinese and Japanese (thus I partially eliminated some inaccuracies). But the result was still far from perfect.

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Post  sepid Tue 03 Feb 2015, 1:19 am

Second image, third line below (under railways uniforms) - this uniform belongs to japanese Harbour Board.
Third image - civil formal dress.

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Post  wfrad Sun 08 Feb 2015, 9:20 pm

Tadao Nakata's book, Imperial Japanese Army and Navy printed 1973, is a very good reference for Imperial Japanese uniforms.
The down side of the book is that a number of illustrations are of poor quality.
The upside was the eight page English language summary that informs you of what's on the page without going into details.
An example of this would be page sixty which has illustrations of government officials, the summary doesn't give details of titles or ranks.
Considering this book was printed over forty years ago and the amount of interest in Japanese uniforms, I haven't seen it or it's equivalent printed English.
A book that deals with the pre 1930's Japanese uniforms that's reasonably priced with An English sub text would be very nice.

I don't believe after over forty years that an English translation will be coming out soon. Not going to happen, is it?

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