It may be chambered in 6.5x50mm Arisaka instead of 7.62x51mm NATO as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was never formed in this alternate history. In the world of The Man in The High Castle, it may be under the name Type 37, referring to the 37th year of Emperor Hirohito's reign, 1962 a convention that was replaced by the year a weapon entered service in the western calendar after Japan lost WWII. The Howa Type 64 is seen with the Imperial Japanese Army throughout the show, being pushed into service as a replacement for their Arisaka bolt-action rifles. Various resistance fighters use them as their main weapon in the show. A Colt M1911A1 is used by Joe Blake ( Luke Kleintank) and by Don Warren ( Michael Rispoli) when he meets with him in an auto repair shop in New York at the start of "Pilot".
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