Arisaka Type 44 Image Credit: Honeycutt, Fred L. Patt Anthoyn, Military Rifles of Japan, Julin Books, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, 1996, Type 44 Cavalry Carbine: These have a permanently mounted bayonet, side mounted sling swivels, and a trap built into the buttstock. Initially, rifles make in Japanese arsenals were numbered consecutively within each Type designation. The serial number was stamped on the left side of the receiver, followed by the arsenal symbol. All Japanese military rifles had serial numbers except extremely rare prototypes, other pre-production guns, and occasional rifles assembled very late in World War II. Japanese Rifle Manufacturers Symbol Arsenal/Subcontractor Period of Operation Koishikawa Arsenal (Tokyo) 1870-1935 Kokura Arsenal 1935-1945 Nagoya Arsenal 1923-1945 Jinsen Arsenal (Korea) 1923-1945 Mukden Arsenal (Manchuria) 1931-1945 Toyo Kogyo 1939-1945 Tokyo Juki Kogyo 1940-1945 Tokyo Juki Kogyo 1940-1945 Howa Jyuko 1940-1945 Izawa Jyuko 1940-1945 3. Rifles manufactured by a commercial subcontractor bear the subcontractor's mark to the right of the supervising arsenal's mark. This mark can be found on the left side of the receiver at the end of the rifle serial number. Each Japanese rifle was marked with the symbol of either the arsenal of manufacture or the arsenal that supervised the manufacturing subcontractor.
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