During the WWII, what tanks, AFV's and infantry weapons did they use? Only a handful of info shows their land military strength

The Arisaka rifle was one both in 7.7 and 5.5mm varieties. I personally have a 7.7mm version as well as one wicked bayonet. They also had a series of tanks Chi-Ha comes to mind, but I'll leave that one for someone who knows, I'm too tired to go drag out my reference books. They had the Nambu machine gun which I understand was quite good. I believe that was 7.62, but not totally sure

Nah, Namboo was a pistol, black with a round thing on the back.

~Chip

Well a couple of corrections the Type 38 Arisaka was in 6.5mm and the type 99 was in 7.7 mm. The Nambu Machine gun was a copy of a French one, they also made a few types of pistols. The Tanks were mostly of the light types, I know that the type 97 was classed by the IJA as a medium but it was basicly a light one by anyother countries standards . The IJA was not interested in Mech warfare dur to the lack of manufacturing capacity and the lack of fuel also for the most part they fought inferior Foes till the island hopping campaings started. The Chinese were to Fragmented and disorganized to put up a viable defence and were not mechinized either. The one time on the Asian Mainland that fought a Mechanized Foe thet got spanked! The Russians defeted them soundly. We used mech forces in the island campaings but as infantry support not as explotation forces.
HTH
Jeff Larkin

Didn't we get into a tank on tank battle with them In the Phillipines? I know they had some on Okinawa and Saipan as my dad made mention of it. But the vast majority of them were in Mongolia where they were no match for the Russian stuff. Thanks for correcting the bore size on that Arisaka .

Yes Blaster we did get into some tank on tank engagments and even a sizable one in the Philippines, but these were in addition to the infantry fight not the normal armored break through that most of us consider Mech warfare to be. Japanest Tanks were used in a subordant roll to their infantry and were religated to staying with them. Yes there are even instances of a few Japanese tanks taking out Shermans but it was by no means common. To the Japanese the Sherman was a big and bad as the Tiger was to our tankers. Even our light tanks faired better aganst them due to the Aggressive training our tankers had compaired to the Japanese tankers. Being trained to stay with the Infantry can make for very rigid and unworkable tactics for armor.
Well I guess I ran on a bit?
Just my 2 Cents worth
Jeff

my grandfather fought the japs in burma and in his experience jap tanks didnt fair well against 25pounders!
apparently if hit with he shell the jap tk's had a habit of disintigrating!

Well, the armour of the jap tanks was too weak and they werent any threat to the allied tanks

Just bought Battlefield 1942 and the expansion. I saw some Jap tanks. The bad part is, the infantry weapons were from Germany! They were using Walther/Luger, StG 44 etc... I am hoping to see Jap weapons but it leaves me with these German thingys

yeah ive got it too, but there are some patches and mods (s9 realism mod...) that the weapons are the reeal ones

Where can I get the patches/MODs? I've seen the Dessert Storm. Is it a MOD or an expansion?

http://www.planetbattlefield.com/
Desert Combat is a mod which simulate the 1st Usa-irak war

IS this the one with the MLRS and the Abrams? Also, where can I get bots for LAN game? Or how do I add them? I wanna play over the network but I can't add bots! Only in the single player instant battle

Multyplayer-> create game-> gamemode coop (its with bots)
yeah DC is with modern arms like stinger rockets, abrams tanks, mlrs t-dunno mortars, hunvees and so on