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Still looking for one of those collars. Thanks for all the interest!

In my quest for a Japanese war dog message collar I did manage to pick up a US message collar. These are pretty scarce as well I'd bet.

Here are a couple of related interesting links
Dai Nippon Military Antiques Imperial Japanese Army Dog badges
Dai Nippon Military Antiques Imperial Japanese Army Dog badges 2

That's a beautiful dog! Thanks for posting!
Here is my Gunner guarding the front door

The metal recovery program probably explains why so many early Type 99 rifles were picked up after the surrender in Japan with all their unnecessary parts missing like dust covers, monopods, AA...

Wasn't Hachiko an Akita? The dog in my second photo at the top of this thread appears to be an Akita and I think it's probably a family pet rather than a war dog. It seems that all the true war...

This is very interesting information. I'd never heard of this anywhere else. Mucho Thanky!

Great photos Nick! Thank you
That is an impressive collar. Was it used for dress occasions? Now, I'll need to find one like that as well as the message collar

Thanks! Golden Retrievers have become my favorite and I have two of them now. Gunner is almost 13 and Parker is about 3 years old. I have had three others but they are gone now but not forgotten. ...

I love this hobby and I also love dogs so naturally I fell into the groove of collecting photos of Japanese war dogs. Here are some I've come up with but my "holy grail" in this area of collecting...