When I was in 8th grade, I exhibited a collection for the first time in my life which contains the stamps issued at the Japanese Military Occupied Area and I got Silver-Bronze medal then.
I stopped collecting them more just because I found super modern Japanese stamps and stationeries more interesting and I started collecting European countries after I started collecting stamps again, but I sometimes think about Japanese Military occupied area stamps and so I joined the club of this theme in Japan and this is the only philatelic club I join now in Japan.
Last weekend as I was busy enought not to go to Osaka, I joined Stamp Fleamarket which Mr. Takasaki held in Asakusa and there I got many Japanese covers. Among them I found the cover used in the Military Occupied Hong Kong. It is sold at 2,000yen (20 EURO) at the Tanaka-ya shop. I felt the cancellation is rather beautiful as it was not cancelled during the period but as it was only 20 Euro, I got it anyway.
When I returned home, I checked the other covers used and cancelled in Hong Kong and I upload the images as well.
Well what I got this time at 20euro is too much beautiful , but is it genuine or fake? How do you think about it?
17.1.22 Hong Kong (22th Jan. 1942)
Registered letter to Japan, Hong Kong 20.5.19 (19th May 1945)