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This picture seems to have been taken by a photographer in Suzaka City of Nagano Prefecture in the prewar but there was no military unit due to very countryside. Guys in the photo look high-school students to me.
 
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Shinpachi said:
I have not seen such a fashionable one in any old photos. That might be a modest enjoyment for teenagers.

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Shinpachi, is it possible this was a military Academy for students?

And in the original photo, there is an embossed area bottom/right that has characters within, would that be from the photographer, perhaps?
 
GrauGeist said:
Shinpachi, is it possible this was a military Academy for students?

And in the original photo, there is an embossed area bottom/right that has characters within, would that be from the photographer, perhaps?
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Good point as always, Dave

This seal says "カツヤマ スザカ = Katsuyama in Suzaka" and next pic is the Katsuyama Photo Studio in Suzaka since 1913.


Katsuyama in Suzaka

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At a glance, these guys in the picture may look like students from a Preparatory Military School in Tokyo nearby but this guy in the circle destroys such a militaristic atmosphere to show they have nothing to do with the military although some of them look militaristic to me too.


These are the students of Preparatory Military School (in Tokyo).

Source: Army Academy and Preparatory Military School of the day (1981)
 
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