The Japanese Ministry of the Environment has announced that they will begin gradually regulating the use of lead ammunition beginning in 2025 in order to prevent the poisoning of wild birds. Hunting has become quite popular in the island nation, however, authorities in [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: The Green Berets in Okinawa (Japan), moving through ankle-high water during the 4th Marine Regiment Jungle Warfare Exercise at the Jungle Warfare Training Center. During the exercise, they trained forward reconnaissance, terrain analysis, practice [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day: Some duties in the military may be rather boring, but machine gun training must be on top of the list of how much fun you can have. Here we’re looking at U.S. Marines with the 2d Battalion, 2d Marines, as they conduct a live-fire with the M2 .50 [Read More…]
There’s a lot of action going on in today’s Photo Of The Day. We have a bunch of U.S. Marines with the 3d Battalion, 3d Marines, using a variety of weapons systems in order to seize an enemy position. This happened during a live-fire combat rehearsal [Read More…]
Subject: Photo Of The Day Location: Okinawa, Japan, April 2021. What’s going on? Above you can see a U.S. Marine with 5th Air Naval Gunfire Liaison Company, III Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, as he provides security. The 5th ANGLICO conducted air [Read More…]
Japan, the land of sushi, ninjas and volcanos. Here we are at Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, looking at Aerial Sniper Training. In our Photo Of The Day, we have U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Ryan Lauritsen, a scout sniper with 3d Battalion, 3d Marine Regiment, engaging a target [Read More…]
The look in the eyes of these U.S. Marines is pretty interesting, and I can’t blame them! We’re sitting behind a screen looking at this Photo Of The Day, while they are trying to overcome what has to be one of the wettest and muddiest obstacle course [Read More…]
You don’t have to join the Army to visit a lot of strange and interesting places. As long as you follow TFB’s Photo Of The Day, you’re sure to experience the Globe and the World of firearms safely from behind your screen. Above you’re looking at [Read More…]
Photo Of The Day and above we’re looking at a 40 mm “potato” being fired out of an M32 Multiple Grenade Launcher. The photos are taken at the Yausubetsu Training Area in Hokkaido, Japan, during exercise Northern Viper. The soldiers are from U.S. [Read More…]
Sunshine and rain combined in today’s Photo Of The Day from Japan, where we get an excellent side-view of an M4 Carbine with an ACOG sight and grenade launcher. Above and below: We see U.S. Marines with the 1st Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, assigned to the 4th [Read More…]
For some time now the Japanese Defense Forces have been moving towards a replacement for some of their key small arms. The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force is currently equipped with the indigenously developed Howa Type 89 5.56x45mm rifle and the Minebea 9mm Pistol, a [Read More…]
Flash forward to the Kadena Air Base in Japan in Today’s Photo here at TFB! Here you can see U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Keon Miller, special mission aviator assigned to the 33rd Rescue Squadron, as he fires a GAU-18 machine gun aboard a Sikorsky HH-60G Pave Hawk. [Read More…]
Camp Hansen is a United States Marine Corps base located in Okinawa, Japan. The camp got its name after Dale M. Hansen who earned a Medal of Honor, unfortunately posthumously as he was killed by an enemy sniper in 1945. In Today’s Photo Of The Day you can see US [Read More…]
Japanese newspaper called The Mainichi reports that a large cache of buried WW2 firearms and edged weapons was found during construction works near a Tokyo elementary school. Estimated 1,400 firearms (or rather what is left of these guns), 1,200 bayonets (maybe also [Read More…]
Comically named “Hardcore Tactics” is not looking for a way to get into your pants, but for a way for you to get into theirs. Their new product, dubbed “Mag Pants” (no doubt short for “Magazine Pants”) are a funny and quintessentially [Read More…]
The mainstream internet is going crazy over our Nambu Type 94 video, published over a year ago on our TFBTV Youtube channel, presented by the much missed Alex C. Yesterday it hit the /r/videos subreddit. The Type 94 was a horrendous gun. At first glance I assumed it was a late war gun made out [Read More…]
Novel Arms is a Japanese optics manufacturer that is partnering up with LKCI, a Turkish based company that will be importing the companies optics from Japan into the United States. A number of optics companies have used Japanese manufacturing because of the high quality [Read More…]
It’s not quite as small as the World’s smallest Kalashnikov, but there’s a lot of impressive details in LittleArmory’s Kriss Vector SMG. Bear in mind, the size is only 130x210x20 mm, (or about 5″ x 8″ x 0,8″), so they’ve [Read More…]
Many of you may have heard of the Japanese Type 100, the Empire of the Rising Sun’s only fielded submachine gun. It was a blowback operated, magazine fed, bayonet mounted, 8mm Nambu submachine gun that was fielded too late in the war to make a difference, and [Read More…]
For those who know about Japanese Animation, Akira is a classic and the motorcycle in the movie is iconic. For those who do not, here is that iconic motorcycle. The bike was so prominent that it was used on the covers of the VHS tapes and DVDs. Someone in [Read More…]
Is it Toggle Month, or what? Readers of TFB have so far been treated to several posts in April on the famous toggle-locked Luger pistol, but the fun’s not over yet! In the 1930s, the Japanese were – like many major powers at the time – looking to [Read More…]
The Type 4 (sometimes also called the Type 5) was a clone of the US M1 Garand rifle developed by the Japanese Navy towards the very end of World War II. It’s a fascinating rifle for its combination of American engineering and Japanese style. Forgotten Weapons [Read More…]
This photo has been going around Social Media. At first glance it seems like quite the weapons cache. But upon closer inspection not all of these are weapons. The pistols are laying next to airsoft magazines. The Playboy is clearly not dangerous. At the bottom right [Read More…]
Akaitama sent in this photo taken at Iron Fist 2015, an amphibious training exercise undertaken by the Japan Ground Self Defense Force and the US Marines. The JDF troops are using the standard issue Howa Type 89 rifle: with its 420mm barrel, screwed-on top [Read More…]
For today’s Friday Field Strip, we’re looking at the Japanese Type 99, a rifle with more than meets the eye. The Type 99, commonly but somewhat erroneously called the “Arisaka”, is a rifle that was once widely known as a crude, last ditch weapon of the Japanese Empire, but [Read More…]
A 60 year old man in Japan was recently arrested for building homemade guns of his own design. According to him it was his hobby for the last 40 years. He used scrap anvils as a source of hardened steel and crafted his own ammunition using toy caps and casted lead [Read More…]
Kuma sent us a photo of his uncle’s hunting rifles that feature handmade fully customized stocks. These are my uncle’s rifle. He use this rifle as a hunting guide in Hokkaido, Japan. Above Action and barrel:SAKO Caliber:.308 Stock:Maple wood(Custom) [Read More…]
Jake Adelstein of The Japan Times, interviewed a retired Detective of the Kanto region with 25+ years experience pursuing violations of the Firearms Control Law. In Japan,obtaining a firearm is nearly impossible and owning or selling one is illegal. Shooting a firearm? [Read More…]
It served the Imperial Japanese military for 40 years and drew inspiration from several sturdy European designs of the day, so how well does the Type 14 work? Well, we set out to find out! Many thanks to Christian for the German subtitles and Osamu for the Japanese subtitles. Transcription below [Read More…]
The early model Japanese Type 99 Arisaka was by far the most optimistic rifle ever made. The designers envisioned soldiers shooting 175 grain 7.7x58mm rounds and taking down aircraft. The operation of the sights are explained in this excellent video by C&Rsenal [Read More…]