I was reading a thread on the above subject.

I don't think the anti-British author knows his a*se from his elbow, as we were not fighting nor was there any such thing as a Malayan Colony left in 1989, but the facts as applied to the Japanese are interesting.

Two Japanese Survive As Communist Guerrillas 1989
Two x-Japanese Army soldiers: Kiyoaki Tanaka and Shigeyuki Hashimoto went onto fight with the Malaysian Communist Party (Malaysian Communist Party), in Southern Thailand. The two were part of a group of x-Japanese Army soldiers and civilians fighting with the MPAJA.

(NOTE - Although fascinating, these two were not true hold-outs because they knew the war was over. Rather, they were former Japanese Army Soldiers who went on to fight with another faction and never returned home.)

When the Malaysian Communist Party surrendered in Southern Thailand in 1989, there were at least two former Japanese soldiers with them. About 200 Japanese consisting of soldiers and civilian employees joined the MPAJA. While most of them joined soon after the end of the war, some who could not support the oppressive Japanese policies deserted the Japanese army to join the MPAJA during the war. They were resolved, together with the Malayan people, to liberate Malaya from British colonial rule. When the MCP finally decided not to wage an anti-British war, Lai Tek considered them to be obstacles to the implementation of this peaceful line. In accordance with his order, nearly 100 Japanese members were killed. Of the remaining one hundred, only two managed to survive the protracted armed struggle that ended in 1989. Thanks to John Baker for this information

A reference to this same event is in "The Japanese Army 1931-45 (Vol. 2)" by Phillip Jowett, the last and provides the names: Kiyoaki Tanaka and Shigeyuki Hashimoto, but lists the date of their surrender as January
1990. Thanks to Jim Moore for this information