Here's an extract from an extensive price list of army weapons as of December 1941. Next to the Yen prices from 1941, I put what that Yen price translates into in 2017 currency values, adjusted by CPI (Consumer Price Index).
If you want to further calculate what that would have come to in 2017 $ and €, the average $ rate for 2017 was 111.19 Yen to the dollar and 125.17 Yen to the Euro.
That means that a Type 95 Sword would have cost €317 or $357 in 2017 money.
Or you could say 7 type 30 bayonets were a fair barter with a Type 14 Pistol back in 1941.
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