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Old March 30th, 2008, 06:36 PM
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Japanese Medical Officer, ignore the pose, he was busy explaining something. And the slight blurriness is because it was taken with my cell phone camera:

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Very neat!
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Nice pic! I noticed he's carrying a sword, which isn't atypical for Japanese Army officers of that time period in general, but did medical officers really carry them?
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I want to say yes. The reenactor photo'd is pretty hardcore...
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Nice pic! I noticed he's carrying a sword, which isn't atypical for Japanese Army officers of that time period in general, but did medical officers really carry them?
Yes Medical officers carried them if they desired......a;; part of the "New" Bushido code of the era.
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Great pic from a cell phone.
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