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9th May 2008: Site changed to www.xavierb.org as my former ISP supplier let me down when it was the time
for renewing. Next day a university was displaying a blonde instead of my site (many can think that is better, but I certainly don't!). Please update your links. Also I have had to remove my e-mail
to avoid the scourge of the spam by pirate robots. Really, the Internet is becoming a harder place to live... Well, we are still here anyway.
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22th August 2003: Added page on Miscellaneous and Unidentified Awards awards. This section also
includes contributions of visitors to this website.
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3rd August 2003: Added four pages to the badges section: Imperial Soldier's Relief League, Naval (including Imperial Sea Disaster Rescue Society), Air and Patriotic Women associations. All images there are courtesy of
Paul Murhpy. Also added the Evolution of the Golden Kite chapter to the Order of the Golden Kite page.
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22th June 2003: Added image previews to all the obverse images of the medals. Also some more minor technical and visual
changes. We are also preparing new contents for an incoming big mid-Summer update.
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26th May 2003: Part of this website has been plagied! As we have found surfin' through the web that entire articles of this site have been straightly copied
in another website without any kind of link or credit, we have added to our main page buttons of support to anti-plagiarism associations. It has been always a policy of Orders and Medals of Japan to properly credit, cite or link
our sources, and also to share any content with others provided they credit us with it too. Unfortunately there is people in the net who is unable to do even such an easy action. We do not have enough money to pay lawyers, but at least
we can protest against cheating!
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21th May 2003: using new hosting vendor has improved access speed! Now it is more easy to access Orders and Medals of Japan with no hungs
or connection loss. Also we have updated our links section removing those obsolete and adding new ones. Added a link to my common homepage entry http://www.xavierb.org at each page. E-mail
address updated and book Uniforms and equipment of the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II added in Sources section.
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2nd May 2003: changed site location from the old http://perso.wanadoo.es/xbp/japan to the current
http://www.xavierb.org/japan
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19th November 2002: new, better images, of Golden Kite and Rising Sun 5th class.
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28th May 2002: added images of the rare China Incident Medal, 1942 version.
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27th December 2001: added images of: Order of the Golden Kite 4th class, Order of the Sacred Treasure 7th class and Korean Annexation Commemorative Medal.
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9th October 2001: added images of: Order of the Rising Sun (4th and 6th class), Order of the Sacred Treasure (4th and 5th class). Army Workers badge included in the Army Badges page.
Link to Megan Robertson's Medals of the World page updated to its new URL.
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27th December 2000: added article on Next-of-kin medal. Added images of the Order of the Rising Sun 3rd Class, Order of the Golden Kite 6th class and Imperial Sea Disaster Rescue Society medal
2nd class. Section of Red Cross medals includes now those awards and also all the unofficial ones.
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12th October 2000: Added the much demanded by our visitors section on Red Cross and Imperial Sea Disaster Rescue
Society Medals.
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4th September 2000: Images of Breast Stars of Order of the Rising Sun and Sacred Treasure added, courtesy of
Yuri Yashnev. More than 20 new links added.
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2nd September 2000: loaded site entirely rebuilt to improve navigation and readability, also with new articles
on Manchukuo's Border War medal, Commander's badge (company grade) and many new pictures of veteran badges.
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31st July 2000: changed site location from the old http://www.ctv.es/USERS/xavierb/japan to the current
http://perso.wanadoo.es/xbp/japan
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9th February 2000: article on the Bukosho in badges section (courtesy of Louis Demers), images of the Sacred Treasure 3rd class and
a search utility added.
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