Type 38 chambers do seem to run onn the large side, Can't be good for accuracy, as it's easy to imagine all sorts of evil things happening to those long bullets as they enter the throat at an angle.

I wonder if the minimum range settings on the sights of these rifles also has had an influence on their popularity. The average Joe shoots mostly at 100yds/m when evaluating a new rifle, so his new Japaneseicon rifle may very well shoot over the top of his target-if it's not tall enough.