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Located next to Peace Park
on the west coast at Layang-Layangan Village is the
Japanese Surrender Point. This is where the 37th Japanese
Southern Army surrendered to the 9th Division Australian
Imperial Forces on 9th September 1945 which led to the
end of World War II in Borneo. It is also in this
area that Southeast Asia's first war crime trials were
conducted and this place is built as a memorial to
remember this historic incident which have taken place.
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