Antique Japanese (war) Photos : HELP ME FIND THEIR RELATIVES

[LA_seeker]

Hi,
I am new here. I signed up to share these photos and perhaps find out who the people are.
My goal is to reconnect this Photo Album with a relative of someone pictured within.
(I acquired it yesterday at an estate sale and the seller had no info on it.) I also do not read Japanese

I believe them to be WW2 related, Imperial Japanese soldiers.
There is a copper "Dog Tag" that was tucked within the album as well.

The photos are too large to upload on this board- but there is a link for anyone outside of Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 6502d05324

Thank you for your time,
Lisa

[Akira Takizawa]

Dog tags are for privates. So, there are no names of soldiers. The unit of one tag is 20 artillery, Probably, it means 20th Field Artillery Regiment. It was sent to Palau. The unit of another tag is 7793. It is unit code, but I cannot find such a code in unit code list.

A document is a postal passbook. The owner of the account is Sadao Miyagi and his address is Palau Island. all Japanese residents on Palau Island returned to Japan after the war ended. So, the ower of this passbook also would return to Japan alive.

There is no description on the album. So, the ower of the album is unknown.


Taki

[LA_seeker]

Thank You Taki. There is only one tag- the photos are front and back side (not 2 separate tags)
-Lisa

[Akira Takizawa]

Humm, it is strange. Dog tags were often reused. But, in this case, the inscription of invalid side was stroke through. But, there is no strikethrough in the both sides of this tag.

Taki

[LA_seeker]

Are these War Medals this man is wearing?
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... 90e9e35bf5

[Akira Takizawa]

A woman on the photo is Chinese. So, these medals would be also Chinese. I don't know about Chinese medals.

Taki

[LA_seeker]

Thank you Taki