Original Japanese Pre WWII Imperial Japanese Wool Enlisted Mans Overcoat - Dated 1937 Chinese Militaria s fate hung in the

s fate hung in the balance

though the leather is quite dry and cracked in places

Purchased in the 1980s and laying in hiding at IMA ever since

It does not show much sign of actually being used

Original Japanese Pre WWII Imperial Japanese Wool Enlisted Mans Overcoat - Dated 1937 Chinese Militaria s fate hung in theOriginal Item: Only One Available. Before Pearl Harbor the Japanese had already begun imperial expansion in Manchuria (1931), Inner Mongolia (1936), Jehol (1933), China (1937), and in other territories and islands during World War 1. The Empire of Japan entered World War II on 22 September 1940 when it invaded French Indochina, and made its entrance into the war official five days later with the signing of the Tripartite Pact with Germany and Italy on