RAY GUN WITH SPARKS - MAKER? - JAPAN

Dark blue tin lithographed space gun with orange markings. The gun has a distinctive blue and red cylinder shape at the tip of the barrel. The cylinder has four spark windows.

There are two versions of the gun: one has an axle emerging from the barrel and has no spark windows in the sides of the gun. The other the other has an axle emerging from the cylinder but has no side windows.

Marked "Ray Gun" on the sides. Friction action with spark. Maker?