Book Review: Japanese Military Cartridge Handguns 1893-1945 - Videos

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What began as Harry Derby’s “Hand Cannons of Imperial Japan” in 1981 was revised, expanded, and reprinted in collaboration with James Brown in 2003 as “Japanese Military Cartridge Handguns 1893-1945”. That new edition is both the definitive guide to Japanese military handguns, but also a great example of how to write a firearms reference book.

It is both broad in scope and deep in content, covering both major production gun like the Type 14 and Type 94 but also the minor ones like the Hino, Sugiura, and Hamada, as well as experimental variations. It includes detailed serial number and production date tables, and even detailed explanations of minor inspection marks.

The book is not just tabulated data, either – far from it, in fact. There is a tremendous amount of written history, describing the development, production, variations, and military use of the different pistols. If it has any shortcomings, it is in the illustration. Some of the photographs are color, but many are black and white, and they are not nearly as numerous as in many other books. However, they are sufficient to explain the information being given, and their absence hurts the work only in artistic way.

Anyone with an interest in handgun development in general, or Japanese arms in particular, should have a copy of Derby & Brown’s excellent work in their library.

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43 COMMENTS

  2. Hmmm. Your books always look so pristine. I have always been a scruffy bastard but no matter how I try to keep something mint as soon as I look at it it get dirty and beat up. I am cursed I think. Great content as ever. Thanks for the upload.

  6. Thank you for reminding us about the reality of the Type 94. Detraction is classical gun mythology, often perpetuated by those who've read others' comments, yet never actually had direct experiences. An advanced Japanese collector in our organization had one he allowed us to fire using Midway 8mm, made years earlier. Japanese, designed their Type 94, to do exactly as they intended.

  9. If at some point in the future the vast and mysterious remaining Japanese weapons from WWII scattered throughout China could be opened up to your study in person… That could give you material for decades of videos yet imagined.

  14. Perhaps you could explain why modern 3D Printers are incapable of replicating something as simple as a bullet cartridge. You yourself are having trouble shooting your MAS-38 7.65mm. I'm not talking about mass producing cartridges, just producing enough to test old firearms.

  26. I'm not really into guns per se, but I have always found your channel, Ian, very interesting. Pistols and very old (forgotten) weapons are what interest me. The way you present is flawless, thanks… 🙂
    Is that a smoking jacket you are wearing?

  27. Is there a book that lists all of the proof markings that have been used in the world?
    Specifically German. Did the East Germans reproof firearms after the wall went up?
    I have a wall hanger of Dreilling.

    It has many marks on it. None of them have a Swasitka.
    But given the high number of proof marks on the weapon. I suspect that it was not made all in one factory.
    Although I have found a few of the marks on line. That point me to a German/Austrian There are many that I have been unable to find on line.

  29. You have to introduce the book, and the spirit that you are drinking during the video. Japanese military cartridge handguns, and Japanese whiskey. Russian SMGs, and Russian vodka. German small arms development, and German schnapps. American LMGs and bourbon. You get the point, lol.

  30. Is there a good book out there for Japanese machine guns around the same time? I really like the Type 11,96, and 99 LMGs and was wondering if there was any material to read up on those.

  32. An old book I kick myself for leaving behind in the latest 'rig shift' . . . was one (large format illustrated) book by an ex US ww2 armourer/gunsmith . . those dudes are fitters & turners par excellence with ton's of hard won knowledge

  35. in all honesty, i'm a bit surprised you dad wasn't involved on this book, please pass on my regards if you would, loved his work on tales of the gun by the way! I would have loved to have had him for a teacher in high school maybe i wouldn't have loathed the place the way i still do!!might have actually learned something worth knowing!! (the one I was forced to deal with had football and basketball on what miniscule brains it had!)!it's to bad it's not the Brown you eluded to, my opinion of him would have gone up massively!!!

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