Any DU'ers here who Played with Toys Stamped: "Made in Occupied Japan?"

[KoKo]

Tin Toys...with "colorful graphics" and "Easter Baskets for us Christians that had "filler of newsprint" written in Japanese language."

What I loved about "Easter Baskets" was that I tried to decipher the Japanese language ....and couldn't but I thought it was SO NEAT to have my Easter Basket filled with newsprint in something I couldn't understand..and hoped my teachers would teach me about.

We now have "Imports from Cambodia and soon Vietnam." After Gulf War I we had Dubai and United Aram Emerates sending us "Textiles."

One should wonder when the American Empire finally "hits a WALL" and is no longer able to corrupt or co-opt children, elderly or other "willing workers" to send their "low cost goods" over the Pacific Ocean to willing BUYERS here in the US......just "us folk" trying to "buy cheap" because we can't afford much with both spouses working anymore.

BUY CHEAP...and it goes all over the world and circles around and bites us in our butts..............

Buy CHEAP and the WORLD GOES BLIND!!!!!

[KT2000]

1. No...but

I have a lace doilie that has a sticker that says "In China Make."
It is likely 20 years old.

[karlrschneider]

2. I remember them well. Mostly little tin car toys and such.

A lot of them were made from discarded Prince Albert cans. (I'm serious.) This from the late 1940s.
;-)

[KoKo]

5. Oh...they were shipping "scrap metal" to Japan in the '40's like we do to China

NOW! what does that say? I wonder...what does it say. Recyle our discards to send back to us...and who knows what this all means except that it's "GOOD for (as Larry Kudlow of MSNBC SAYS) the GOLDILOCKS AMERICAN ECONOMY!

Not "too hot...or too cold...it's JUST RIGHT!" Oh dear God...why is it that I don't think "THEY GET IT?"

I must be screwed up in my thinking.........:-(

[maxsolomon]

3. we still have Tannenbaum ornaments with that.

my parents have a huge collection of "mud men" bearing that label.

[KoKo]

7. I hear the "value" of stamped "Made in Occupied Japan" is increasing in

"value" because there weren't alot of babies born during WWWII who had access to playing with that stufff. :shrug:

Who knows....

[JuniperLea]

4. My Granny had dozens of those tin and stuffed toys

I inherited many of her porcelain pieces with that mark.

[ThomWV]

6. Apparently You Haven't Seen What That Stuff Costs These Days

It brings small fortunes at auctions .....

[KoKo]

8. Yes...but...think about this...it's "Cool Now" ...but at WHAT PRICE, globally

Maybe something that was "thought" (a GOOD THING) ...need's to be "re-thought" for the 21st Century. :shrug:

[BrotherBuzz]

9. No memory of toys marked as such, but I do have china marked...

'Made in Occupied Japan'.

[Berry Cool]

10. I actually have a little wooden carousel, purchased at a Christmas shop sometime in the '80s,

stamped "MADE IN THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC."

I have absolutely no idea how it got into the USA. Lord only knows where this shop got its stuff from. But I kind of treasure that little thing because my grandmother was from a part of Germany that eventually became part of the GDR, and is now just part of Germany again.

[KoKo]

24. Amazing..."German Democratic Republic"....... Thanks for the post.......

I didn't know about any of those...

[sandnsea]

15. I have a pre-war child's tea set

It was my mothers, who was born in the 30's. It's marked "Made in Japan", so it was going on long before we occupied them.

[KoKo]

19. I have a "blue and white" stamped with Made in Occupied Japan....I served

tea to my dolls from it for years... And...it now sits in my house "in place of honor...from my childhood."

While there are now "knock offs" of that tea set and little kids today might "care less about...child's tea sets and where they came from" ...I hope that other will remember...so I keep it out...and no one comments but it helps me "connect" somewhere...that needs connecting to.

[BrotherBuzz]

22. Exporting from Japan is not new. Before Made in Japan there was made in Nippon

Nippon is porcelain made in Japan between 1891 and 1921. Best stated, Nippon is actually an era and was made by many different companies. Typically, a Nippon piece of porcelain will have the word "Nippon" included in its mark or backstamp. In 1921 the USA asked Japan to no longer use the word Nippon on its exports to America, but instead to substitute the word "Japan" or the phrase "Made in Japan". Hence, most likely, any porcelain from Japan with the word "Japan" on it is not Nippon. Most Nippon was made for the Western market and very little of it remained in Japan.

Interesting, today there is a thriving forgery market for Nippon china...and the junk is mostly made in China. Go figure! :rofl:

[H2O Man]

11. When my son was digging

a ditch two summers ago, he found a thin, 2-inch metal tag that read "made in occupied Japan."

[pecwae]

12. I have a delicate teapot

that has the stamp on the bottom that my father brought back to mom.

[AndyTiedye]

13. I Had a Slide Rule That Was Labeled "Made in Occupied Japan"

[madokie]

14. you bet I remember,

born march '48

[Cleita]

16. Yes, I remember little mechanical toys, like soldiers, dogs and

other animals that you wound up to get them to walk.

[Cleita]

18. Also, in the early sixties, I decorated my first apartment with

items from a Japanese store that catered to the Nisei population. I had dishes, teapots, vases and other ceramics, fans, parasols and lacquered furnishings as well as boxes and baskets made from bamboo. A lot of interesting decorated paper screens that made wall decorations and items of clothing I turned into pillows and furniture scarves.

I originally went there because the items were so cheap, but kept going back because they were artistic and aesthetically pleasing to me. I also got into burning incense that I also bought there and experimenting with various teas. The old Japanese couple who ran the store were always helpful and kind.

[KoKo]

23. I have a little "donkey" (amazing) that twirls his tail when he's "wound up"

and I still have the "key" to make him twirl his tail. My Father-in-Law brought the toys home after WWII...because he served long after the War was over...and he was in "Occupied Japan." He had five sons...and their toys were a treat for them from their "Poppy" when he had leave... since America was just getting off "rationing" but not on it's feet yet to give toys to our children...given our scrap metal had all gone for WAR.....

Most mothers were still mixing in "coloring" to "oleo-margerine" to make it "look like butter" and folks were planting "Victory Gardens" to give themselves "fresh veggies." :-( It was "hard times."

[Gormy Cuss]

17. I have small teapots with that label

My mother had them in her teapot collection.

[KoKo]

21. We did it to help the Japanese after WWII....to help their ECONOMY after

we NUKED THEM....We little kids...didn't know much about that...but some...:-( It took decades to know about the "Internment Camps."

Whether that was good or not given the worry about "Japanese Spies" after Bombing of Pearl Harbor...well...we know what happened to America after "9/11."

Sadly, we didn't have a toughtful President on "9/11" like we had with FDR... We had the Chimp whose background goes back to supporting Nazi's and he doesn't seem to have some "guilt" about that.

[LittleClarkie]

20. My dad had a tea set and a saki set that he got from occupied Japan

when he was in the Navy.

[KoKo]

25. My Father-in-Law was Navy, too. Brought home stuff.....and to America in

Recession trying to pay for war with folks on "Rations" it was very welcomed.

Thanks for post!

[DoYouEverWonder]

26. I have a small binocular

with intricate metal work that I got from an uncle that is stamped 'Made in Occupied Japan'.