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The Arisaka rifle (有坂銃 Arisaka-jū) is a family of Japanese military bolt-action service rifles, in production and use 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 most common specimens include the Type 38 chambered for the 6.5×50mmSR Type 38 cartridge, and the Type 99 chambered for the 7.7×58mm Type 99 cartridge, which was comparably powerful to a modern .308 round. Many thousands of Type 99s and other Arisaka variants were brought to the United States by soldiers as war trophies during and after World War II.
Arisaka (written: 有坂) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Hideyo Arisaka (1908–1952), Japanese linguist
- Mika Arisaka (born 1974), Japanese-American singer and vocalist
- Arisaka Nariakira (1852–1915), officer in the Imperial Japanese Army
Usage examples of "arisaka".
It was larger and heavier than the Arisaka he was used to: plainly a weapon made for a bigger soldier than the average Japanese.
Navy men, he got the stock of an Arisaka rifle in the side of the head.
They could kill her, though, and they would if they saw her with an Arisaka in her hands.
Garvin put down the noctoscope, waited for his eyes to adjust, then rose quickly, sighting the Arisaka rifle.
The Arisaka rifle the Japs used sounded less robust than the Springfield.
SOB reason to run and hope everybody else in the shooting squad, or at least one Jim Peterson, got an Arisaka round right between the eyes.