The Arisaka rifles have appreciated greatly in value in recent years, with the Type 99 variant currently selling online for between $450 and $1,000 based on condition and variant.

At the precipice of World War II, the Arisaka rifle family had become a fixture of the Imperial Japanese Army. Millions of Type 38 and newer, sleeker Type 99 rifles were produced, equipping troops ...

Type 30 Arisaka rifles are stacked in the foreground. One of the defining battles of the war was the Siege of Port Arthur, the extensive Russian naval base on the Liaodong Peninsula in Manchuria.

The Arisaka rifles were designated with the year of the current emperor's reign. Thus, the Type 38 rifle was designed in the thirty-eighth year of the reign of Emperor Meiji which would have been 1905 ...

S Carbon Fiber is one of the latest in their most popular line: the Model 1500. They manufactured Arisaka rifles in the early 1940s and there’s a long list of manufactures that they have worked for ...

The rifle was hailed for its reliability and allowed for the rapid advance of forces. As the war progressed and Japan faced more well-equipped Allied forces, the limitations of the Arisaka became ...