Assembling an Imperial Japanese Army Type 99 “Tako” Pack
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- čas přidán 15. 07. 2023
- A general overview on how to assemble a Type 99 Backpack, commonly referred to as the “tako” pack due to its many straps resembling an octopus. We will release a video on its contents once we acquire most of the basic personal items.
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別れの尺八
梅と兵隊
従軍記者
雪のラーゲル
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世にも珍しい海外の日本軍マニア？
いずれにせよ軍歌のチョイスが渋い上に凄いコレクションですね、装具を綺麗に使って下さってありがとうございます。
I've only seen this in some historical books. Thank you for fleshing out the equipment side of WW2 era Japan. It's very interesting to see it in action.
Yeah, no shit....Very impressive Sir !!! I don't think there are many folks out there who preserve this history.
私は日本人です！素晴らしい動画を有難う！
Folding technique for the blanket and the half shelter is very rigorous ! We are lucky you take the time to showcase such little known information !
Amazing on the care and thought went into out fitting the troops for Japan at the time. I hope there is still some documentation on the full loadout of what each solder had and how prepared they were out in the field.
Thankfully there is, but it’s quite difficult to get all the personal items since both reproductions and originals are rare. Hopefully we’ll do a video on it in the future.
蛸足背嚢の実演！陸自になってからも似た背嚢が使われていましたね
Having had to tie down everything with leather straps as a german great war reenactor the canvas straps that are already attached to the pack seem much more convinient. Very cool video!👍
日本軍が実戦の実践で辿り着いた合理性のあり方なんだなあ。ちょっと感心。
Wonderful! Well done! Good detailing, and a look at how Japanese thought and culture affected everything in their lives, even the lowliest soldier whose highest asperation was death in battle for the Emperor. in order to understand the mind of an enemy, one has to look at every aspect of him, and many clues for the wise and observant are presented in the simple but elegant way the Japanese soldier subsisted with the equipment he was proud to carry because it was given him thru the chain of command by the Emperor. Those days seem far distant now. Life and the world have been made a better place in Peace than in war. But if Historians and average people are to have an understanding of those sad days and the terrible nature of war, an understanding of the Japanese soldier is essential. This goes back to Sun Tsu who taught that it was good to understand your opponent as a key to victory. Understanding history is a key which helps explains the present and unlock the future.
My wise and observant part was thinking this is not real until it is done kneeled in the dirt (on a rainy day)
Very true and so well-written. You have a way with words and you understood the mentality of the Japanese soldier of World War II.
Well that's certainly not the first type 99 he's assembled.
I have no clue why I started watching this video, but I became mesmerized.
Oh that's really remarkable how the backpack is packed. It looks like it doesn't make any noise or rattle. The folding of the blanket and the tent is really awesome! A question about the spade, why isn't it complete. Or is it put together somehow? But you can only get to the steel helmet very slowly. Is there another way of transport, between normal march and close to battle? What equipment is in the backpack? Thanks for the interesting video about it.👍👍
The spade and handle breaks down into two pieces for ease of transportation. The helmet is tied over the mess kit when you don’t expect combat but when you are, you can place it on top of the backpack and tie the strap around your body for easy access. The backpack would usually have spare clothes, personal items, rations, and other goodies.
Ehre und Respekt , den tapferen japanischen Soldaten. Mögen sie in Frieden ruhen. Honor and respect to the brave Japanese soldiers. May they rest in peace.
Como siempre buenos videos que nos demuestran un poco más de como era el ejército imperial
Fascinating stuff!
What a fascinating video!! It was like watching a Japanese chef cooking, - everything very precise and meticulous. Very interesting and well researched.
it reminds me of a sushi
It is used that backpacks of a similar type were also used in the early days of the Japan Self-Defense Forces.
Love the music BTW. It seems like more emphasis was put on the European theatre of operation here in the west, in movies and in popular culture, but it must take a level of dedication, discipline, national pride and hutzpah for a small island nation like Japan, with limited recourses, take on three Giants at the same time. Talk about punching above your weight. A lot of people don't realize that the bulk of Japan's manpower and recourses were focused on China, but still managed to fight and hold on to the island archipelago for as long as they did. My Grandfather served in the USMC in the Pacific, and I've always been fascinated by the foe they faced.
Excellent. The sound track was good too.
Very beautiful! Thank you from the US
Very impressive. Thank you.
Looks like a nightmare if you need to carry extra rounds for the section MG, especially with the Japanese's lack of belt feds
Members of an MG team had separate pouches for the Type 96/99 magazines and a loose rounds bag where they keep ammunition to load into the magazines. They weren't kept in the backpack.
@@hattorihan7503 so other riflemen in the section didn't carry extra rounds for the MG?
@@dxd_jack951 Only for emergencies, because the riflemen would be doing their own maneuvers separate from the MG team
大変興味深い内容でした。ありがとうございました。
Nice, Great Work Keep Making This Content I Really Like It. Thank You
Awesome info! Looking forward to the video showing what a soldier was issued.
Спасибо тебе товарищ за конструктивный ролик . Ты облегчил мои страдания в изучении мат части реконструкции императорской армии Японии.
Très instructif sur un matériel intéressant, merci.
I'm always amazed at how little gear soldiers on all sides carried during WW2. Compared to a modern military load, it's a very badic kit.
This is the munition kit. But there were undoubtedly other pieces of kit carried depending on your combat role - a stove and mess for cooks, a surgical box for medics, a satchel of explosives for engineers, loading tools and spare magazines for machine gunners, a field telephone or radio for commo etc.
The war in the Pacific was marked by *entrenched* enemy positions, so soldiers on patrol stayed as light as they could until they could return to a fortified base camp. In jungle surroundings, this is a well put-together kit - light and compact enough not to get caught often on foliage, but with enough gear to stay sheltered and ready in temperamental tropic weather.
You must also remember that in modern battle doctrine forces soldiers to always be in communication or connection with every other member of a fighting body - which means that radios, maps, binoculars, flares, signal smoke grenades, etc - which were carried by officers only to direct or aid troops, are carried by every single soldier of a unit; which increases weight carried by a large factor.
Köszönöm! Érdekes videó lett. Nyomtam egy like!🙂😀👍
This was very cool and interesting.
Do a video on Gunto swords, WW2-Era Japanese Samurai Swords.
This is just too cool. I love it.
Does “Tako” mean “octopus”?
Yes.
Japanese's army backpack has 8 belts .so, that is same as octopus 8 foots. That why call Tako belts pack.
Very interesting and keep it up!
Imagine a young Japanese recruit learning these basic techniques.........
This was a very informative video. Man, I would have to have to use this system. It reminds me of white pack system the Brits used in the late 19th century.
Brilliant. Thanks
So very compact and sensible.
Thanks for this content. Best regards from germany.
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おぉ！仲間！今度やるときはイタリアは仲間にしない！
:) Hello from Czech! Thanks for your channel and videos. I have one reproduction of "99". I use this backpack for bushcraft. Have a nice day and good luck! Banzai!
Great video. Thank you 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻.
Thank you very much for sharing information 🤗🤗🤗 🎌🎌🎌
Muy interesante.Muy buen recreador.Saludos desde España.
They made another video let's gooo. ❤😮
Can you guys do a video over those camo painted nets the IJA issued? There’s not much on them, except for a few period pics of them and some antiques being sold online
Now that was COOL !
Very cool. Great work spreading history.
Nice and neat!
勇敢なる先人達に感謝を
sb
すごい! てんおはいっかばんざいいい🙋🏻♂️👍🏼🤘🏼
Great video
Interesting. I'm glad someone is making this kind of knowledge available about the Imperial Army. And in English too! There's so much good content out there on the US but it takes multiple sides to fight a war.
What kind of footwear are used when tabi are on the pack? Are tabi like the helmet, and used mainly in combat?
Soldiers would be issued leather boots. Tabi are supplementary footwear originally intended for work purposes but soldiers would also wear it in combat.
thanks sharing
wow so cool, i want one, it was literally a work of art when you were done. best visual of that pack setup i have ever seen. could you put a list of items in the description.
Вмегда интересно помотреть форму и снаряжение армий второй мировой войны
as Cantonese, I have to say that the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II was indeed a terrible and respectable opponent
Respectable? They were worse than the NAZIS
Great tutorial video.
Interesting on how the soldiers packed and assembled this.
I've seen displays of this at the museum of history but the curator and people who worked there could not describe how it was assemble or the setup.
How I know-domo~arigato.
Very interesting
Nice
Very interesting.
Bravo ! Encore une vidéo très intéressante au sujet de vos uniformes militaires pour un amateur Belge de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale - C'est Parfait ! 👍👍
From a modern perspective this seems like a very complicated way to pack a bag. But I'm still amazed how similar much of it is to what we have in the swiss army. Especially the shelter half is almost identical and we also roll it in similar way
good song
Great video.
Would you mind doing a video for the Jika-Tabi's that we saw in this video?
Regarding uses, effectiveness, care, etc.
That’s a good idea for a future video
Where did they get the field cap with the flaps from?
What did the typical Japanese Soldier eat? What types of food or rations were available to them?
Do you have a link for this version of Plum and Soliders, its great
マジックテープやバックル等がないので大変そう･･･
Very informative and interesting. Would this have to be inspected by officers before moving out? How much did it weigh? And, what would the average soldier have possibly carried in their pack?
Where do you get all of this? Is most of this reproduction?
I really like the idea of folding the tent half into itself. This my sound silly but I wonder if origami idea were used for thing like this ? Do you plan on covering food at some point ?
That’s something we’ll do an overview on in the future.
Estou escrevendo em português do Brasil.
Agradeço ao esforço para demonstrar o equipamento utilizado e a forma como eram embalados.
Guerra é uma atividade humana, infeliz e triste, mas humana. Que envolvem varias areas do conhecimento e que nos trazem aprendizado.
Agradeço pela aula e conhecimento transmitido.
TAKO＝99式タコ足背嚢、 蛸の足のように、結ぶ紐が多い事から「タコ足TaKoと呼ばれた🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🙏🙏🙏
even the backpack kit makes more conflicated
Great video,but a you pls post links to where we can get there pro gear?
I’ve seen your previous videos on the Chinese uniforms. And I wanna know, where do you get them? The only place I’ve found is hikishop and from what I’ve heard they are not the best seller.
時空を超えてやってきた!
Amazing! Thanks for taking the time to make these. It's hard enough to find decent looking gear for a US impression, let alone Imperial Japanese. And I can't imagine doing research is very easy. Is your helmet restored or repro?
То есть чтобы на привале покушать - чтобы достать котелок нужно будет разбирать всю укладку? И потом вязать обратно?
What was filling out the pack in the first place? Like your vids.
I felt the humidity in the first 5 seconds of this video
I need to know where to you get all your stuff, do you get it from a website or is it custom made and if custom how?
Please help Admiral Yamamoto
The regulation method for packing anything always looks very nice and compact but takes way too long and is too specific in the particular way a given item is to be set to really be practical outside of a garrison environment.
The regulation method is there to teach soldiers how to maximize space for the pack and make sure everything is properly neat and secure for inspection, training exercises, or a long march. Of course, if you’re in a situation where there is a lack of time or space, then the soldier can use an easier method.
Question, So why is it so dependent on tying instead of having leather or cloth straps with buckles? Would be easier and more practical in my opinion. Was the reason being there was a lack or resources or cultural reasons or both?
Mostly due to the lack of resources and ease of maintenance. It was a good enough replacement for the older leather and fur models that the JSDF continued using an updated post-war version
Cool music I dont know what they are saying but I like the vibe. I imagine a singer in black and white
Wandering
I have a question: in which situation jika tabi are supposed to be used?
Are they feild slippers?
What would the rations have been like?
What would be the hardest part of your kit to find. ?
The historically accurate tent poles and stakes. Only a limited number of reproduction poles were made and they have to be won at online auctions in Japan.
Awesome content! Thumbs up! I must say what a overly complex system for such little benefit. A slightly larger conventional pack would have been far more useful. I will be looking for your other videos watched a couple, interested in cold weather kit of IJA?
A question, since I've peeked through some books and some references suggest that infantry were given greatcoats, would they be rolled up and strapped around the pack similarly to the blanket? Thanks! I've recently found your channel by the way and I appreciate your very intricate details and explanations on soldier's equipment.
Depending on the climate, the greatcoat or raincoat would be rolled with the blanket roll inside. Thank you for your compliments!
Did the equipments or the layout change throughout the war, especially near the end of the war ?
The equipment and layout of the tako pack in the video would have still been appropriate for 1944-45. The war ended before you started to see the issuing of even lower quality or “last ditch” equipment.
Дякую, дуже цікаво.
Fascinating - infantryman's origami...
Can u also tell us the items inside the pack
Main drawback I can see is if the inside of the pack needs to be accessed, much equipment has to be removed first.
The backpack isn't normally taken into combat so a soldier wouldn't put stuff that he would need in a battle in it. Thats why he has an easily accessible haversack.
Lieutenant: "Okay fellas, in two days we counterattack..."
Regular infantry: "Welp.....better start packing up now."
What is the name of BGM ??
Это оригинальное снаряжение? Или новодел?
Do you know of any Japanese infantry memoirs? I've seen some from people in the Kamikaze program and a sub commander but non from a common Japanese infantryman.
The book Tales of Japanese Soldiers is the first that comes to mind. It mostly focuses on railroad troops in Burma but shares a similar experience with frontline soldiers. Unfortunately the vast majority of memoirs haven’t been translated from Japanese.
@@hattorihan7503 Thanks for the recommendation. It seems like there could an opportunity for someone that is bilingual to publish some. There is a growing interest in the Japanese experience in World War 2. Type 38 and type 99 rifles for instance, now have a lot more of a following than they used to.
@@hattorihan7503 I picked up a book called "A Tomb called Iwo Jima". It has soldier interviews and is based on the Japanese experience on Iwo.
Looks like alot of work. How were you to do this in the middle of a swamp or jungle under fire?
A soldier would only completely disassemble/reassemble his pack when he’s not in combat because the items he’ll need in combat would either be in his haversack or strapped on the outside of the pack which only takes a simple pull on the strap to loosen.
Could you please send something so I can buy this I would really like to get into this stuff