Identifying Japanese pair of Binoculars

[Mickey]

Hi
Please can you help a new member, I’ve enjoyed having various military binoculars over the years and have just picked these up, problem is I can’t find much about them on the internet, my concern is are they from WWII era? any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

[Ryoyo]

To start, you've assumed they are Japanese. What are you basing that on? Anchors and stars are very common symbols internationally. The Japanese navy used an anchor with a cherry blossom, not a star.

[Mickey]

As the only thing I could find were a Pair sold on EBay what said Japanese. They could be Italian, Spanish I just don’t know. I just want to know if anyone can identify them using the marks.

[monkeyboy]

Welcome Mickey,

Your binoculars are postwar Japanese. There were a dizzying array of postwar makers marks on optics. Wartime military binoculars will feature army or navy inspection marks on the hinge cover plate, the part circled in red.

[Mickey]

Thanks for confirming Japanese, as long as there not modern fakes there ok.