YUSEI JIGYOCHO (Japan Postal Agency) issued on 27 May 1906 stamps and special postmark cancellations for Naval Commemoration Day of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) on a postcard showing samurai. It was issued by the Department of Communications as a souvenir of the Army Review held in Tokio after the War.
The blue 1½ Japanese sen stamp with canon and Japanese flag was initially released on 29 April 1906. It had a print run of 2,910,000 copies. A red 3 sen stamp was printed as well. The grey ½ sen chrysanthemum stamp was first released in 1901.
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