Talk:Watashi no Koi wa Hotchkiss/@comment-30764484-20130702040149

After realising neither "Hotch" nor "Kiss" could be Japanese words, I looked up what they meant. Turns out that "Hotchkiss" was the name of a guy, and I'll give you this link for the rest of the story, because it's complicated.

Bottom line is that the title should be "Hotchkiss", not "Hotch Kiss". Most places online refer to this song with this as two words, but they're all wrong, even if they're the majority.

To expand on point 1 in the link: "1. Hotchkiss was the name of a machine gun from World War One. Because of the fast, shooting motion of the staples, Japan could have picked up the Hotchkiss name from the WW1 machine gun. Apparently, they were invented at a similar time."

Makes sense, but in addition to that the Japanese military used three different guns made by Hotchkiss in WWII, an HMG, a larger HMG mounted on light tanks, and an anti-aircraft autocannon mounted on ships.