The Japanese copied anything and everything they could make cheaper and sell to the world market. It was called a 'Japanese copy' long before the center of cheap imitations shifted to China.

Trouble was, the Japanese eventually got to where their 'copies' were actually quality merchandise.

They were sought out to produce copies of famous firearms when the work got too expensive to do in America and Europe. Thus the Miroku Brownings, the Parker repros, and the Model 12.

The Chinese have a way to go yet, but I have no doubt they will get there.

"The price of good shotgunnery is constant practice" - Fred Kimble