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The rear of the bolt/cocking piece is checkered. It's that way for a reason. With the heel of your hand push in and rotate the cocking piece. That action should bring everything into alinement and unlock the bolt.
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Not necessarily; There is a way to rotate the safety and get everything (including the safety) locked. As I said it's been 20+ years since it happened to me, but you definitely have to "fiddle" with it, but I think (if I am remembering correctly), manipulating the checkered knob is part of it.
The first time it happened to me was at a gun show in the 80s when some joker somehow managed to get the bolt on a Type 38 on my table in that condition. It took me about 20 minutes of "fiddling" until I finally got it free.
The second time (on another Arisaka) was not too many years after that, and I more or less knew what to do, but even that was more than 20 years ago.