"Showa" or "Dept of Interior" stamp?

[Bruce Pennington]

I have read that in his discussion on his website. More than once, he makes a point that he is refuting false beliefs in Japanese sword community about WWII gunto.

I find it interesting, in a way, it symbolizes the great fight that developed between the samurai "traditionalists" and the modernizationalists. Even to this day, traditionalists don't believe that a blade made in a modern way can be better than one made traditionally.

The traditionalists lost the war back in that day, but the battles still go on in the minds of today.

[DaveR]

So the same person as here? The question then would be, how different is the book to his website, and as a non Japanese reader would you get more out of the English language site than the Japanese book.

Military Swords of Imperial Japan (GuntM)

[Bruce Pennington]

We'll just have to wait for our Japanese readers to let us know. From the title, and the website ad, the book might be more focused on the question of were the shingunto better fighting swords than the old nihonto. If so, it may not be anywhere near the resource for study that the website is.

Guess we'll find out soon!