½ Yen British Commonwealth Occupation Force

The British Commonwealth Occupation Force notes were issued for use in occupied Japan from 1946, allowing BCOF personnel to make purchases without using Japanese yen directly — a deliberate policy decision to keep Allied spending separate from the fragile civilian economy. The Australian Army Canteen Service series, printed by Miller in Melbourne, was a strictly internal scrip: usable only within designated canteen facilities and not redeemable through Japanese channels.

The half-yen denomination is the smallest in the BCOF canteen series and consequently the most prone to attrition. Few saw formal preservation.