Do the modern Japanese forces have an equivalent of the

Surprisingly, no. There was a resounding amount of support in the early 1940's to introduce one, but the government at the time said it would decrease morale by showing troops injured so much. I disagree with it, but whatever.

>>31313493
So if I was drawing some animu crap, and wanted a character to be wearing a medal that denoted an injury, what's my best bet?

>>31313531
See, that's the funny thing. It was extremely dishonorable for a Japanese soldier to go home injured instead of dying for his country. This explains why they had kamikaze pilots and such. Once they realized they were out of fuel, ammunition, fucks, etc, they would charge at the enemy. This was extremely useful psychologically, but obviously ended with them dying moreso than not.

But, to answer your question, your anime character should probably be an amputee, and looked down upon, as it was extremely disgraceful to 'not give 100% of your effort' during the war. It was commonplace to be summarily executed on sight if your higher-ups didn't like you, and saw that you retreated like a coward. This is also why the nukes were a bad thing.

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>>31313563

the japanese equivalent is not having to commit sudoku when you get home

What about the Self Defense Force? Do they even have medals?

>>31313682
For what?

>>31313682
http://www.mod.go.jp/msdf/formal/english/about/class/costume/index.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Golden_Kite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bukochosho

maybe america could share the purple hearts
we made enough of those things in preparation for the invasion of japan in ww2 that we were still using that same batch in iraq

>>31313426
Pantsu