Those captured sabers

The British army accepted the surrender of the Japanese army in Kuala Lumpur. From the early morning of December 8, 1941, the Japanese army suddenly forcibly landed in Kota Kinabalu in northern Malaya to the capture of Malaya on January 11, 1942. Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Asia. Until the British army was completely defeated and retreated to Singapore on January 31. At this point, it took more than 50 days for the Japanese army to invade and occupy Malaya. However, things turned around. As the Japanese army declared its defeat, on September 13, 1945, in Kuala Lumpur on the Malay Peninsula, Lieutenant General Ishiguro Sadzo, commander of the 29th Army of the Japanese Southern Army, approached the British commander who had entered Malaya. He signed a document of surrender, surrendered his weapons and saber to the British army. Pay attention to the picture below. There was actually a 19-year-old Meiji-era saber on the ground when they surrendered. It can be seen that the standards of Japanese military sabers are also very different. In September 1945, at the Kurihara Naval Base in Honshu, Japan, the U.S. military accepted the surrender of Japanese naval officers and soldiers. On the morning of December 1, 1945, 47 members of the last organized Japanese army on Saipan lined up in a surrender ceremony. Captain Ohba presented a Japanese saber to the US Army Colonel Kurgis. The entire surrender ceremony was carried out in a solemn and calm manner. , the disarmed Japanese soldiers were then sent to prisoner-of-war camps. At 10:00 on October 10, 1945 in China, the surrender ceremony began. Japanese commander Hiromoto led 21 members of his staff to hold a knife presentation ceremony. At 9:00 on October 6, 1945, at the Commander-in-Chief of the Third U.S. Marine Corps A surrender ceremony for the Japanese troops in Tianjin was held in front of the Ministry Building. On the eve of Japan's announcement of surrender, the Eighth Route Army had already occupied the suburbs of Tianjin, and the Japanese army was far away in Sichuan. Chiang Kai-shek ordered the Japanese troops and puppet troops in the city not to surrender their weapons to the Japanese troops, and authorized the U.S. Marine Corps to accept the surrender of the Japanese garrison in Tianjin. In 1944, Eighth Route Army soldiers after conquering the Japanese and puppet bunkers. In 1940, Chen Geng (front left) led the 386th Brigade to capture Yushe City. In 1974, Japanese college student and explorer Norio Suzuki found Hiroshi Onoda on Lubang Island. Later, under the order of his old boss, Major Yoshimi Taniguchi, Onoda put down his saber and became the "last Japanese soldier to lay down his arms" in World War II. After being pardoned by the Philippine authorities, Onoda returned to Japan.