Japanese invasion plan

The Japanese did have a plan, or plans, to invade Australasia in the early days of the war, but shelved it/them. When I was at The Japan Times in the early 1960s, I worked with a guy called Takahashi who was to have been one of the civilian administrators. He told me he had been in charge of the banknotes - the “Mickey Mouse money” - that were to have replaced the local currencies. Later, after I came to New Zealand, I saw one of these banknotes at an exhibition. It looked exactly the same as the old pound note, except that it bore the following message: “The Bank of Japan promises to pay the bearer on demand the sum of one pound”. Incidentally, Takahashi had been a Kempeitai (Gestapo) informer, and had informed on one of his fellow workers at The Japan Times. But 22 years later, when I arrived at the Times, the two were, incredibly, still sitting side-by-side! - From Quora, 19.03.24

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