WWII Japanese Mid to Late War Bayonet Frog Scabbard No.

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WWII Imperial Empire Japan Japanese Bayonet READ & LOOK CAREFULLY You are bidding on an Original WWII Imperial Japanese Mid to Late Japanese Bayonet with frog, scabbard and bayonet. It has numbers on the end of the bayonet (3196973 with Japanese Character above numbers. It has the markings Toyoda Jido Shokki Seisakusho on the blade. In Japanese this subcontractor’s name was Toyoda Jido Shokki Seisakusho, known in English as Toyoda Automatic Loom Manufacturing. This company went into automobile manufacturing, then spun that division off into a separate (but closely related) company in August, 1937. Today the loom company is known in English as Toyota Industries and the car company is the much more famous Toyota Jidosha, known in English as Toyota Motors. They continue to be closely related: Toyota Industries is the largest single shareholder in Toyota Motors, with 5.3% of its shares, and Toyota Motors in the largest single shareholder in Toyota Industries, with 24.5% of its shares. The company still exists today: it is the largest shareholder in Toyota Motors, and Toyota Motors is the largest shareholder in it. Toyoda was the largest bayonet subcontractor. Sugawa (p. 113) says Johnson gives their total production as 1,400,000. The logo on the left appears to have something like a spindle in the centre. To the right is the Nagoya read more