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Miroku Corporation (株式会社ミロク, Kabushiki Kaisha Miroku) (OSE: 7983) is a Japanese firearms manufacturer located in Nankoku, Kōchi Prefecture. Their products include shotguns produced for Browning Arms Company and rifles licensed by Winchester Firearms. [3]
Takahashi Seisakusho Ltd. (株式会社高橋製作所) is a Japanese manufacturer of telescopes and related equipment (such as eyepieces and equatorial mounts) founded in 1932 by Kitaro Takahashi in Tokyo. Originally started as a foundry, Takahashi began manufacturing optical equipment after WWII in 1946.
The Arisaka rifle (Japanese: 有坂銃, romanized: Arisaka-jū) is a family of Japanese military bolt-action service rifles, which were produced and used 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 Nikkor brand was introduced in 1932, a westernised rendering of an earlier version Nikkō (日光), an abbreviation of the company's original full name [17] (Nikkō also means "sunlight" and is the name of a famous Japanese onsen town.). Nikkor is the Nikon brand name for its lenses.
The GLX-160 in Japanese service will be modified so that it can be mounted underneath the barrel. [7] The rifle was also showcased with a foregrip that features a miniature bipod and a DEON MARCH 8x optical sight. [18] The Type 20 was made to be ambidextrous for the user to fire via left or right shoulder. [7]
TOPCON was established in September 1932 [4] based the merger of the surveying instruments division of K. Hattori & Co., Ltd. (now known as Seiko Holdinge Corporation) in order to manufacture the optical instruments for the Japanese Army.
Japanese percussion pistol, 19th century, possibly converted from a matchlock. A few Japanese started to study and experiment with recent Western firearms from the beginning of the 19th century especially as a means to ward off visits from foreign ships, such as the incursion by the Royal Navy frigate HMS Phaeton in 1808. [ 20 ]
The company also manufactures and sells Prominar-brand camera lenses, spotting scopes, and video equipment that is used by NHK and various commercial TV and radio stations. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Kowa is the largest shareholder in both Bull-Dog Sauce Co. [ ja ] and Meito Sangyo Co. [ ja ] , with which it shares cross ownership .