Good afternoon Gentlemen,   I wonder if you could help.   Over the years, I have seen a small number of Gunto, which have clearly been converted from an Ancestral Katana, to Rikugun use.   I have been told, candidly, by more than aa few Japanese Gentlemen, from that Hero generation, ( As both they and us view that dreadful era), that in some cases, local village Councils of Elders would "club together" to send one of their boys off to officer training with a sword ,