The end of the Edo Period brought forth several innovations in military technology to improve upon Japan’s two-century-long gap since its previous contact with any European civilization.

Although it is completely undeserved, the Japanese Type 99 rifle still has a negative reputation ... At the end of World War II, unknowing GIs fed live ammunition into these Type 99 trainers ...

Did you know that Japan had a paratroop corps during World ... This would ultimately result in a take-down version of the Type 99 Arisaka rifle and a folding-stock version of the the Type 99 ...

Hibray did an online search for a Japanese World War II-era rifle with the serial ... Hibray received his father’s long lost Arisaka Type 99 bolt-action carbine rifle. But the auction house ...

A gun collector saw a photo of the Arisaka Type 99 pressure test ... velocity for the Type 99 rifle, which Japanese forces used throughout World War II. Bob Adams, a rare-gun collector in New ...

A gun collector saw a photo of the Arisaka Type 99 pressure test ... velocity for the Type 99 rifle, which Japanese forces used throughout World War II. Bob Adams, a rare-gun collector in New ...

At the Museum of Veterans and Military History in Vilonia, there are two Japanese Arisaka ... than 6.4 million rifles and carbines in the 40 years from 1906 to 1945. During WWII and the subsequent ...

The rifle followed the expansion of the Japanese colonial empire from the acquisition of Taiwan and Korea to even mainland China. At the precipice of World War II, the Arisaka rifle family had ...