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Prehistory
In 1941 the
Imperial Japanese Army occupied the
Philippines, where they obtained a
Bantam Mk II, and promptly brought it to Japan. The Japanese military authorities commanded Toyota to make a similar vehicle but to not model the appearance on the American Jeep. The prototype was called the
Model AK and was formally adopted by The Japanese Imperial Army as the Yon-Shiki Kogata Kamotsu-Sha (
四式
小型貨物車 The Imperial era 2604th model compact cargo-truck ).
Later in 1941 the
Japanese government asked
Toyota to produce a light truck for the Japan military campaign.
Toyota developed a 1/2 ton prototype called the AK10 in 1942. The AK10 was built using reverse-engineering from the
Bantam GP. There are no known surviving photographs of the AK10. The only known pictorial representations are some rough sketches. The truck featured an upright front grille, flat front wheel arches that angled down and back like the FJ40, headlights mounted above the wheel arches on either side of the radiator and a folding windshield.
The
AK10 used the 2259 cc, 4-cylinder
Type C engine from the
Toyota Model AE sedan with a three-speed
manual transmission and two-speed transfer gearbox connected to it.
There is no mechanical relationship between the AK10 and the postwar Toyota "Jeep" BJ. Most of the AK10's were not actively used (unlike the U.S. Jeep) and there are almost no photographs of it in the battlefield.
