West Point grad Hiroki Allen writes the following:
You wrote that Kazuo Nagano was stabbed to death with a sword. Not accurate. The actual weapon was a rifle bayonet, most likely for a Type 38 Arisaka rifle, from the Imperial Japanese Army or Navy.
Watch this video closely, and you will see the weapon. It has a hook near the base of the blade, near the handle. Dead giveaway that this is an Arisaka bayonet, since no sword had that kind of hook.
West Point grad Hiroki Allen writes the following:
You wrote that Kazuo Nagano was stabbed to death with a sword. Not accurate. The actual weapon was a rifle bayonet, most likely for a Type 38 Arisaka rifle, from the Imperial Japanese Army or Navy.
Watch this video closely, and you will see the weapon. It has a hook near the base of the blade, near the handle. Dead giveaway that this is an Arisaka bayonet, since no sword had that kind of hook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6ESK8A2qoE&t=153s
Japanese wiki page lists the weapon correctly as a 銃剣. Not a sword.
Hiroki
image.png
Attachments area
Preview YouTube video 100大事件スペシャル（1992年）「豊田商事事件・東大闘争～」
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGqRQCxxnDCvSWgNvHxWVNlFbzg?projector=1