I hope the info I passed along will help you. My dad left me four Japanese rifles but all were modified and none had the chysanthemum in place. Thank you for your reply, I look forward to seeing your intact type 38 with a chrysanthemum. I will soon post pictures of a type 38 rifle with the chrysanthemum intact. Hello John, thanks for your input, this makes sense. It is rare to find one that escaped the grinding, I hope to see one some day. Would a surrendering soldier have time to grind off the symbol? As you stated few Japanese soldiers surrenderd and there are thousands of these rifles without the chrysanthemum. The History channel recently aired a show on McArther in Japan which confirmed what my father told me. He never saw one that had the chrysanthemum left in place. My father was a gunsmith and sporterised many of these rifles. It was a symbol of the Emporer and that was why McArther wanted it removed. I was told by my late father that General McCarther ordered all Japanese rifles were to have the chrysanthemum removed before they could be sent to the U.S.
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