Japanese Letter from WWII

[Jim Matthews]

The letter was likely written by a Chinese national on the island of TaiWan (Formosa) during the Japanese occupation of the island. This letter uses no Hiragana - something commonly used by a well traveled Japanese writer.

[Erik Loza]

I can add absolutely nothing to this conversation except to say this is FASCINATING. OP, please keep us updated if you learn more. And thanks for sharing.

Erik

[Alan Lightstone]

Could the Japanese (or perhaps Chinese) embassies help with the translation?

[Joe Wood]

I'm also terribly interested in this history, as my G Father was an admiral during the Pacific theater.

I sometimes work with a local Japanese landscape architect, and I asked him to translate it-

The post card was sent from Japan to Taiwan.
I could not read the date, but it seem like before world war II.
Sender and receiver were not Chinese names.
The writing is a kind of old script so 60% was understandable to me.


It says,



We receive the letter yesterday and found that you work hard these days and I’m happy for that.

All of the members of our family is fine and I’m informing they try to return “something”
Please take care of yourself.

[Kris Cook]

I will send the images to my brother. His daughter lives in Japan. Hopefully they can get you a translation.

Here is what I received back from my niece.

Sorry it took so long. I have been traveling. They are apparently still working on the name and address from the front of the card.

[Aiden Pettengill]

Oh that's awesome! Thank you so much Joe!