High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Type 98 Ke-Ni (??????, Kyuhachi-shiki keisensha?) was designed to replace the Imperial Japanese Army's Type 95 Ha-Go light tank, Japan's most numerous armored fighting vehicle during World War II. It is also referred to as the Type 98 Chi-Ni by some sources.Although developed in 1938 to address deficiencies in the Type 95 design already apparent from combat experience in Manchukuo and China in the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Type 98 design was shelved until 1942. This can be attributed to the adequate performance of the aging Type 95 against the ill-equipped National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China forces, which lacked tanks or anti-tank weapons. Furthermore the bulk of Japan's steel went to shipbuilding rather than armored fighting vehicles.