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TEC, she is not a fan of knives or swords but home defense is a 20gauge Mossburg autoloader she handles it like a pro.
i think the UK still allows shotguns
Shinpachi, no need to apologize. I have felt your posts have been fair, and without negativity. Without this forum, and your input Shinpachi, we all would be at a loss without your personal input. I like reading your point of view on topics because your country's experience after the war was totally different from ours. Please feel free to post. If we do not have open discussion, we all lose the opportunity to learn anything other than from our own experiences and perspective. The War is immensely important to talk and learn about.
I am sure there are both Japanese and American veterans who have negative feelings toward their former enemy. It is only natural. There are also those who do not hold any bad feelings. Just depends on the person and what they went through.
In 1966 I was stationed at a small USAF installation outside Kokura, Japan, called Yamada Camp. It was so small ( about 100 men ) most of the local Japanese didn't seem to know it was there, they though we were sailors or merchant marine on shore leave......
Shinpachi
I saw those all over Japan, most of them dont have an edge on them. The samurai sword is a fantastic piece of metallurgy. I saw one being made by the traditional methods and it was fascinating. Maybe a sword on display is a symbol of a good knife. I visited Sumitomos head offices in Tokyo which had an ancient sword on display it was beautiful craftmanship.
Like this one?
The straight blade shows the ancient original style.
Shinpachi, i am totally not an expert but that blade looks very unusual to me. i think of the Katana-type, slight curve and uniformly thin
this one sems to have no point and to be thin, flat and edged only near the tip and then quite thick and no edge near the handle
What a beautiful handle and case
TEC: that's Art or i don't know what art is (and i probably don't)
You know very well about the Japanese swords, TEC and mikewint
The sword curve was the influence of that of the native Japanese who were good at the mock cavalry battles living in the northern part of the islands around the 10th century.
For your knowledge, the Japanese emperor and his family originally came from Korea about three thousands years ago. Before that, the native Japanese ruled the islands. The lineage ratio of the Japanese from Korea and the native is fifty to fifty today.
I have found out the old Yamada Camp.
Now called Yamada Green Zone.
During WW2 Yamada camp was one of the biggest munitions storage and weapons arsenals in Japan, when I was there it was still an enormous munitions area of over 400 storage silos and hundreds offlimits because they were suspect. Even though it was just a bomb dump, more or less, it was a beautiful place, vegetation everywhere, revetments pierced by small gauge railroad tunnels, buildings with rubber covered floors and cork walls. I supervised Japanese work crews than performed munitions maintenence, my crew of 8 had 1 WW2 Army veteran.
Thats the first pictures i've ever seen of whats left, thanks.