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Translating Old WWII Japanese Note -
07-11-2011, 10:47 PM
Hello!
I need help with translating this old note into English. I found it in a pocket of a WWII Japanese Army jacket. I also need help with the markings inside the jacket. I would really appreciate it. Justin  old note  markings inside jacket  jacket  
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07-12-2011, 12:02 AM
便所十七坪 toilet 17tubo
鋳道場27坪 I do not understand the meaning. ？ペンキ五坪 ?paint 5tubo ????八坪 坪tubo=3.305785 m² ?號 size 昭和十八年製 (1943) 大支検定 "大"阪陸軍被服"支"廠(osaka army clothing branch) examination type 98 Gun-i Cryptanalysis is necessary for you. set a goal：English at the same level as Johan Cruyff
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07-12-2011, 12:24 AM
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07-12-2011, 02:06 AM
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Very interesting! Do you think the note is period and Japanese military related or just found its way in the jacket somehow? Thanks for the help. Justin
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07-12-2011, 02:50 AM
I really do not think any Japanese would write "27" during WWII, so the note must have ended up in the jacket somehow in later years.
It looks like someone is about to renovate the house, and its a shopping list for the paint and other stuff. I think its the site issue and Siokan has typed it in, yet it came out as ?, but i think that the jacket size indicator is 小號 - small size. the last line of that note is a mystery, though the top character's right hand side seems to have same radical as 杯 (but the left side escapes me), and the third character from the top could be be 別 （別々 - possibly, but i doubt it, as it is rather unnatural way of writing 々), i.e. 別々八坪 . Second from the top is unreadable to me. Long shot, but the top character in the third row looks like 玉 (bulb). So : bulb and paint for 五坪
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