Is this actually WWII kanji or scribbles?

bldrhouse

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Fake scribbles?

If real, please translate

Thanks, Zigy

 

Grandpa Frank

Sempai

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Not sure if this is the right orientation or if it has to be flipped to the other side. Hopefully or more knowledgeable members can tell.

 

mdchachi

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Scribbles

 

nice gaijin

Resident Realist

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remarkably bad fake, though it may be an authentic fake drawn by American soldiers

 

bldrhouse

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Here's how I found it on the auction sales site.
The right-most character looks real, but the rest....
Lots of American soldiers faked this stuff to sell to swabbied when they got back aboard ships.





Thanks; even the photo of two IJA soldiers looks fake.