[2] Furthermore, the Tokyo Artillery Arsenal stopped manufacturing the black powder in use by the 8mm Murata cartridge.

[4] The minor modifications, intended to overcome some of the defects of the Type 30, including converting the gun-sight's rear sight leaf (rear sight ladder) from slide-out to a "fan out" (扇転式, ōten shiki), and adding a dust cover (遊底覆, yūteifuku).

The device was used to train Imperial Japanese Navy gun crews in basic cannon fire control operation.

The Type 35 action is like the standard Type 35 rifles, including the stamped Imperial Chrysanthemum, except it lacks a serial number stamped on the action itself and is lacking the manually actuated dust cover.

Some of the barrels used in construction of these rifles have reject stamps on them and some of the Type 35 receivers have markings indicating they were scrapped or decommissioned.