Notes: This weapon was built for the Japanese Police, who were allowed only revolvers after World War 2. Unfortunately, the Miroku did not appear on the scene until 1967, and by this time, the Model 60 was already the standard Japanese Police handgun. Thus, almost the entire production run was exported to the US under the names EIG and Liberty Chief. The Miroku is a cheap, snub-nosed revolver, but a serviceable one. It comes in 5 and 6-round models, both with the same names.

Notes: Adopted by Japanese Police in 1961, and later by the Japanese Maritime Safety Guard (the Japanese equivalent of the Coast Guard), the Model 60 is in many ways similar to Smith & Wesson revolvers of the time of its design. The construction of the Model 60 is largely of steel with an anticorrosive finish, and it uses grips of textured plastic. The grip is considered small, even too small for the hands of the Japanese Police who were first issued the weapon in 1961, and as the average size of Japanese citizens has grown in the years after World War 2, this problem has slowly become more troublesome. A large cutout on the butt of the grip has a ring for a lanyard. In addition, despite the fact that the Model 60 is a service revolver, its chamber capacity is only 5 rounds instead of the usual six. Civilian sales have also been made (mostly overseas), and security guards in Japan also commonly use the Model 60. Though many times through the years, many automatic pistols of domestic and foreign design have been proposed to replace the Model 60 – but for whatever reason, the Japanese have stuck with the Model 60 revolver, and some 135,000 have been built since 1961.