RE Japanese WW2 weaponry boring:
It killed. The arisaka in 7.7 is a fairly decent rifle; towards the end of the war they were shoddy, but we were bombing the batsnot of their industries, so yeah..
Their machine guns were OK; they did their job. Mortars, same same.
They were good with what they had.
Thay also had the Ohka - a guided flying rocket. Pilots were sealed into the canopy, the craft was launched from a Betty bomber (Mitsubishi G4M2, I believe) and the pilot ignited the rockets, straight to our ships. It was a flying warhead. They called it “Ohka” or cherry blossom. We called it “Baka” - for “fool”.
Either way, it could be the first cruise missile; unlike the German V-1 “Buzz Bomb”, which this was patterned after and modifed, this had a human pilot in it.
They DID have the two largest battleships in the world - Musashi and Yamato. Bigger than ours, the Germans, the Brits.
Thank you, Mr. “Guns & Ammo”.
I’ll do some reading up on what you posted.