Japanese Mum Luger

[sheepherder]

Originally Posted by DonVoigt

Ok,
someone come up with a reasonable guess or even unreasonable explanation as to why the "Japanese Forces" would mark a luger with a Mum, when they "never" marked their own pistols with a mum?

It needn't be the "Japanese Forces"; it could have been an officer/NCO who had to buy his own sidearm and chose a captured Luger and had the Mum engraved to honor the emperor.

Lots of explanations.