Imperial Japanese Equipment

The Empire of Japan: the first East Asian country to successfully industrialize in the late 19th century and from the 1930s to 45 the scourge of the Pacific. While better off than Italy, Japan still lagged behind in a lot of fields and had major raw materials and fuel shortages.

Small Arms

Rifles and SMGs

• Type 30 Arisaka: Japan's old rifle, put into service in 1899. Fired a 6.5x50mm bullet.
• Type 99 Arisaka:

Machine Guns

• Type 11 Light Machine gun: Put into service in 1922, this gun is weird. Basic idea, make a machine gun that could use the 5 round stripper clips used by Arasaka Rifles. That means you don't have to make special magazines for it or ship them to the front, while regular infantry dudes can supply it with bullets. So it has this weird hopper magazine that takes up to 6 clips. This also meant putting the stock off to the side. While it worked, it was heavy, awkward and not terribly reliable.

Misc

• Guntō: Bargain Basement knock-off katanas. It was a regulation that all IJA officers were required to carry a sword and to that end a large number of these swords were made. Since Japan was raising a fuck-huge army under the militarists, they dispensed with the old arts of Sword Production and instead produced lots of blades not up to snuff.

Ships

Of all the Axis powers, the Empire of Japan had the strongest navy. Germany had to rebuild it's fleet effectively from scratch over six years and Italy...well had all of Italy's problems. Japan in contrast kept it's fleet from WWI and upgraded and expanded it fairly well in the 1920s and 30s.

Aircraft Carriers

• Akagi

Battleships

• Yamato class:
• Nagato class:

Other

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