File: Antique Japanese ( samurai ) tachi tsuka. jpg | Close up view of an antique tachi tsuka ( handle ), one of the " ashi " ( sword hanger ) can be seen.

File: Ashiko cleats 1. JPG | Antique iron ashiko climbing cleats.

File: Antique Japanese naginata 1. jpg |

File: Antique Japanese ( samurai ) naginata blade 5. jpg |

File: Antique Japanese ( samurai ) naginata. JPG |

File: Antique Japanese ( samurai ) naginata. jpg |

File: Antique Japanese ( samurai ) naginata 4. jpg |

File: Antique Japanese ( samurai ) hankyū ( small yumi ). jpg | Antique hankyū ( small yumi )

File: Antique Japanese ( samurai ) daikyū and hankyū yumi 3. jpg | Antique daikyū ( large yumi ) and hankyū ( small yumi )

File: Antique Japanese ( samurai ) yumi bukuro. jpg | Yumi bukuro ( cloth cover )

File: Areobindus 01. JPG | Consular diptych, Constantinople 506, in fully Late Antique style

File: Codexaureus 17. jpg | Carolingian Evangelist portrait from the Codex Aureus of Lorsch, using a Late Antique model, late 8th century

File: Kikko tatami dou. JPG | Antique Japanese ( samurai ) Edo period kikko tatmi dou.

File: Iron jingasa. JPG | Antique Edo period Japanese ( samurai ) iron jingasa war hat of the kind worn by ashigaru foot soldiers.

File: Antique telephone desk. jpg

File: Suneate 1. JPG | Antique Japanese ( samurai ) Edo period suneate.

File: Antique Japanese kusarigama. jpg

File: Kusari shikoro. JPG | Antique Japanese ( samurai ) Edo period karuta kabuto with a kusari shikoro

File: Antique samurai zunari style kabuto ( helmet ) with varoius crests. jpg

File: Antique Japanese ( samurai ) suji bachi kabuto 2. jpg

File: Antique Japanese ( samurai ) suji bachi kabuto 2. jpg

File: KofunCuirass. jpg | Early Japanese armour, iron helmet and cuirass with gilt bronze decoration, Kofun period, 5th century.

They were also criticised for shutting down all servers except the Japanese servers for the games Resident Evil: Outbreak and its sequel Resident Evil Outbreak File 2, which the servers for Outbreak and Outbreak File 2 in Japan finally closed on June 30, 2011, over three and a half years after shutting down the North American and European servers on December 31, 2007.

File: Kusari tabi. JPG | Edo period 1800s Japanese ( samurai ) chain socks or kusari tabi

File: Kusari katabira 6. JPG | Japanese Edo period mail jacket kusari katabira.

File: Kusari kote. JPG | Edo period Japanese ( samurai ) mail gauntlets kusari han kote.

File: Rriveted kusari kote. jpg | A rare example of Japanese riveted mail.

File: Kusari examples. JPG | Examples of Edo period Japanese ( samurai ) mail kusari.

File: Zhou Maoshu Appreciating Lotuses. jpg | Kanō Masanobu, 15th-century founder of the Kanō school, Zhou Maoshu Appreciating Lotuses, Japanese

File: Japanese army sabre. jpg | kyu guntō army sabre

File: Kai gunto. JPG | World War II Japanese naval officers sword kai gunto.

File: KewBonsai04. jpg | Japanese Maple

File: Triage tags ( Tokyo Fire Department ). jpg | METTAG system in Japanese.

< imagemap > File: 1940s decade montage. png | Above title bar: events during World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ): From left to right: Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching " Omaha " Beach on " D-Day "; Adolf Hitler visits Paris, soon after the Battle of France ; The Holocaust occurred during the war as Nazi Germany carried out a programme of systematic state-sponsored genocide, during which approximately six million European Jews were killed ; The Japanese attack on the American naval base of Pearl Harbor launches the United States into the war ; An Observer Corps spotter scans the skies of London during the Battle of Britain ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the first uses of nuclear weapons, killing over a quarter million people and leading to the Japanese surrender ; Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri, effectively ending the war.

File: Ashiko cleats. JPG | Japanese iron climbing cleats ashiko.

File: shikomizue. JPG | Japanese sword cane shikomizue.

File: Ninja type weapons. JPG | Japanese concealable weapons ( ninja type )

File: Makibishi. JPG | Japanese iron caltrop makibishi.

File: Kaginawa. JPG | Japanese iron climbing hook kaginawa.

File: Shuriken. JPG | Japanese concealed weapon shuriken.

File: Tachi-p1000618. jpg | Tachi forged in 1997 by Matsuda Tsuguyasu, tachi koshirae made in 1999 by Takeyama.

File: Koshiate ( Sword Hangers ). png | Various types of " koshiate ", a device used to carry a sword in the tachi style ( cutting edge down ).

File: Katana-Garbutt01. jpg | Line drawing showing the correct method of wearing a tachi while in armour.

File: Tachi-p1000618. jpg | Tachi and tachi koshirae.

File: Antique Japanese ( samurai ) tachi tsuka. jpg | Tachi tsuka.

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