hi dave
yes you are correct came with a leather holster in 1931 the japanese didnt come around to makeing the rubberized holsters mostly when they captured the rubber plantations in the philipines and like the germans they expermented with different ways to save on the leather to make these last ditch holsters last i would say this with all sencerity there were no cowards in the japanese army they fought to the end so i would say it was taken as a war trophy by a soldier who killed the japanese officer who owned it surender was never in the japanese books and if an american soldier or britts or australian soldiers surrendered most of the japanese soldiers shot them for surendering in the japanese soldiers eyes they were cowards that was thier bushido code of honor but war has no winners sorry to get carried away with a histoy lesson but thats me god bless andy militarynut