Raffles Hotel Museum -- hotel housing a treasure past

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What a party it was: On August 20, 1945, five days after Japan's surrender in the Second World War, 300 Japanese officers relaxed in the lobby of Singapore's Raffles Hotel with its soaring ceilings and palm trees. They luxuriated in the August heat and made sake toasts before coming to the evening's climax: Each pulled his ceremonial sword from its scabbard and literally fell on it. It was an odd choice of location for a mass suicide.