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 ...

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.

But Golodoff’s recent death at the age of 84 has reopened a chapter of American history and stirred up memories of a long-forgotten Japanese invasion that prompted the only World War II battle ...