Item #62118 : Original era manufacture. A clean example with its original ribbon, the ribbon displaying light age and surface fraying. Hook & eye suspension fitting on the reverse. Established in 1915 by Imperial Edict to The medal was issued to naval personnel who served in the Japanese fleet in the Mediterranean during the Great War and to the Army whoparticipated in the Japanese expedition to Siberia from 1918 to 1922 aimed at the Soviet Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War that followed the October 1917 revolution.