Editing Imperial Japanese Equipment (section)

=== Rifles and SMGs ===
[[Image:Arisaka.jpg|300px|thumb|Left|The Arisaka rifle, not to be confused with rifles made by [[Cyberpunk 2020|Arasaka]] ]]
* '''Type 30 Arisaka''': Japan's old rifle, designed by Arisaka Nariakira and put into service in 1899, it saw use in the Russo-Japanese War and the Great War. Fired a 6.5x50mm bullet. Generally a solid five-shot bolt action for it's day, if a bit underpowered. 
**As a side note, the 6.5x50mm Arisaka bullet was better suited for a man-portable automatic weapon than the typical over-charged full rifle rounds of the late 19th/early 20th century, which were made with accuracy and stopping power in mind. The Russian Fedorov Avtomat used them.
* '''Type 38 Arisaka''': Update on the Type-30. Used primarily in WWI, and partially replaced by the Type 99 in WWII. Had utterly shit sights and a weird safety.
* '''Type 97 Arisaka''': Type 38 rifle adapted for sniper use, usually with a 2.5x power scope. 6.5x50mm produces very little flash and smoke when coming out of a long barrel, making Japanese snipers difficult to spot.
* '''Type 99 Arisaka''': Built to replace the Type 30 and Type 38 by firing a 7.7x58mm cartridge. Improvements to the sights also made it the preferred rifle for snipers. That said, the Japanese still had a lot of Type 38s and 6.5x50mm, so it never fully replaced the Type 38. The sniper variant of the Type 99 was one of the more sensible snipers of the war, as the scope was mounted offset so that strip mags could still be inserted, resulting in a faster overall rate of fire. Also had a terrible trigger and the same shit sights from the Type 38.
* '''Type 4 Rifle''': It became apparent to the Japanese that many countries were now adopting semi-auto rifles, including the German G43, the Russian SVT40, but especially the American M1 Garand. Since they didn't have the time or resources to develop a brand-new rifle during the war, they basically reverse-engineered the Garand and built it to use the same 7.7mm stripper clips as the Type 99. A few hundred were made but were never deployed before the war ended.
* '''Pedersen Rifle''': This semi-automatic rifle had competed with the M1 Garand for adoption in the US Military; when it failed trials, a number had been sold to the Japanese government before the war. This gun uses the same toggle-action used on the luger pistol, making it more prone to mechanical failure. While the Japanese didn't have many of these rifles, they were used in the Battle of Okinawa. An attempt at copying it, the Type Ko, never left the prototype stage.
* '''SIG Bergmann Model 1920''': A common export SMG made under license that copied the Bergmann MP18, this updated version replaced the side-loading Luger snaildrum magazine with a straight magazine. The Japanese purchased the version in 7.63x25mm Mauser and used it as their primary SMG for the Sino-Japanese war.
* '''Type 100 Nambu''': The only production SMG made by the Japanese, and made in more limited numbers compared to other militaries. The Nambu SMG fired the same 8x22mm cartridge as the standard Nambu pistol. It had  sideloading magazine much like the earlier MP18 and contemporary Sten; while side-loading magazines had fallen out of favor by this time due to the unbalanced weight, it was a hell of  lot better than the other experimental Nambu SMGs that had been made at the time.
* '''Nambu Experimental Model 2''': One of the experimental SMGs developed before the war; it was initially rejected, but the urgency for more SMGs pushed the design into production. However, because it was being produced in Manchuria, the Chinese Communists took the design and used it during the Chinese Civil War, these being converted to use .45 ACP Thompson magazines.
* '''Murata Rifle''':  The OG of Japanese military rifles, first put into production back in 1880 and used during the Russo-Japanese war. Originally single shot, latter got a tube-mag upgrade. Only used on the home islands for the civilian reservists.
* '''Last Ditch Guns''': In the late war, Japanese manufacturing had been effectively crippled and resources were in short supply, so these so-called "Last Ditch Rifles" were made to arm what military forces remained, as well as civilians for the upcoming invasion of the Japanese home islands. These ranged from simplified versions of the Type 99 to very crude single-shot musket-things to give to civvies. Most of the stereotypical garbage that would explode at the slightest touch issues occurred here. While they didn't issue guns that would actually explode (that dishonor would go to the poor abused things Kijiro Nambu's pistols were reduced to by the late war) much more than normal, quality control rapidly went down the drain and reliability issues really did go up a lot. Most likely they jest wouldn't fire or get jammed far earlier than early war guns.