Hi and thanks for your time in looking at this post. I would appreciate any insight to the meaning of the inscription on the tang, inscribed on the one side only.   I have my fathers Shin-gunto that I am now looking to pass onto my son and would also like to pass on a little background. My father received this either at the Japanese surrender at Balikpapan, or more likely the general East India surrender at Morotai.   All that I can work out is that it was made at S