Whether it was done during the war or not we have no idea. Although most examples have tiny, nearly unusable rear apertures, this one has a much larger aperture. The Imperial Japanese Navy’s Type 4 (Garand) semi-automatic rifle is one of the rarest military firearms. Ours has a dark black paint finish as most of these do and is unmarked. A few sources mention that some of these guns may have been used on Okinawa, and a Japanese trials Pedersen was captured in combat there, but most sources claim the Type 4 never made it into action. Apparently, enough parts for 200-250 of these rifles had been made by the end of the war and 125 rifles were actually assembled. Our example has a two-piece stock along with an Arisaka style buttplate and sling swivels. It has a 10-round integral box magazine made to be fed from stripper clips as opposed to an en-bloc clip. The Japanese Type 4 is basically a wholesale copy of the weapon. That process proved problematic and a request by the Imperial Navy for more firepower for its ground troops ushered in a project to completely reverse engineer the M1. One of the most iconic American firearms of all time, the M1 Garand was the standard. Type 4 Rifle - 35+ images - ataman m2r tact carbine type 4 black air rifle airgun, japanese type 4 garand photos forgotten weapons, japanese type 4. During the war, the Japanese began to encounter the M1 on the battlefield and experimented with converting captured US rifles to 7.7.

“The Japanese had been working on semi-autos since the 1930s, but those experiments hadn’t developed into any production rifles.

Japanese type 4 garand