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The Arisaka rifle (Japanese: 有坂銃, romanized: Arisaka-jū) is a family of Japanese military bolt-action service rifles, which were produced and used since approximately 1897, when it replaced the Murata rifle (村田銃, Murata-jū) family, until the end of World War II in 1945.
The Type 97 sniper rifle (九七式狙撃銃, Kyū-nana-shiki sogekijū) is a Japanese bolt-action rifle, based on the Type 38 rifle adopted in 1937, following Japanese combat experience in Manchuria.
Philippines: Captured during World War II and used by Filipino guerrillas. [16] South Korea: 60,000 rifles along with 500,000 rounds of ammunition were provided to Korean Constabulary in January 1946 as service rifle by the United States Army Military Government in Korea, [17] and also obtained from Jinsen Arsenal at Incheon.
In 1937, the Japanese adopted the Type 97 sniper rifle, which was a standard issue Type 38 rifle with a 2.5x telescopic sight fitted and a bent down bolt handle. The 6.5 mm round lacked power and accuracy at long ranges, so when the 7.7 mm Type 99 rifle was adopted, the Japanese conducted trials with long and short Type 99s modified as sniper rifles in 1941.
The following is a list of Japanese military equipment of World War II which includes artillery, vehicles and vessels, and other support equipment of both the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), and Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) from operations conducted from start of Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the end of World War II in 1945.
The pro-Japanese Collaborationist Chinese Army also received Type 38 rifles in the 1940s [39] while many more rifles were captured by anti-Japanese forces. Chinese copies were also locally produced. [40] Estonia: A total of 2,400 Type 38 rifles provided by Finland were converted to .303 British for the Estonian Defence League. Designated the ...
Later, Japan developed the very successful bolt action Arisaka series rifles, which was the Japanese service rifle until the end of World War II. [28] Japan produced relatively few submachine guns during World War II, the most numerous model was the Type 100 submachine gun of which 24,000–27,000 were produced, compared, for example, with the ...
The Howa Type 89 assault rifle (89式小銃, hachi-kyū-shiki-shōjū), referred to as the Type 89 5.56 mm rifle (89式5.56mm小銃, hachi-kyū-shiki-go-ten-go-roku-miri-shōjū), [5] [6] is a Japanese assault rifle used by the Japan Self-Defense Forces, [6] the Japan Coast Guard's Special Security Team units, [6] and the Special Assault Team. [7]