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TYPE 96 LIGHT MACHINE GUN as a standard in caliber 6.5mm manufactured by two army arsenals and one civilian contractor through August 1940.

TOP PHOTO shows the weapon in a canvas cover for early experiments in paratroop operations. With some changes it would eventually be adopted as the universal cover.
 

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TYPE 97 Tank Machine gun adopted by the Imperial Japanese Army for tank usage in 1937 and replacing the T-91 Tank Machine Gun in most armored vehicles.
The Navy also used the weapon in their combat vehicles as the Type 92 Armored Car. The barrel jacket protecting the weapon from exterior vehicle exposure has been opened to show disassembly. The cartridge magazine, foreground, is of straight configuration following the Z.B. Brno Light Machine Gun style, rather than typically curved, a feature of later Nambu style light machine guns.
 

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TYPE 98 Japanese Army Aircraft Machine Gun, caliber 7.92 mm [German].

A direct copy of the German MG 15 produced by Rheinmetall-Borsig A.G. of Derendorf, Germany in the 1930’s for the German Air Force. The Japanese obtained a license agreement in 1937, officially adopted it in 1938 and started production in 1940. Cartridges are fed from a 75 round ‘saddle drum’ magazine.
 

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This weapon was an adopted standard for the Japanese Navy in flexible style. This photo shows the early pattern with the drum cartridge magazine; later patterns featured a belt feed system. Long range bombers as the Mitsubishi G4M3 utilized this flexible pattern mounted in dorsal and tail turrets.

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TYPE II MODEL A, machine pistol in 8mm pistol cartridge with patent issued to Kijiro Nambu in 1935.
Rejected for adoption by the Army it had limited use by the Imperial Naval Marines during the Sino-Japanese War and the Shanghai invasion. Note the 50 round cartridge magazine extending from the pistol grip. A unique feature, which would not resurface in sub machine gun design for nearly fifteen years in Czechoslovakia and Israel patterns.
 

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