Question: Men who refused to believe in the formal surrender of Japan continued to stay where?

The Battle of Waxhaws (also known as the Waxhaws or Waxhaw massacre, and Buford's massacre) took place during the American Revolutionary War on May 29, 1780, near Lancaster, South Carolina, between a Continental Army force led by Abraham Buford and a mainly Loyalist force led by British officer Banastre Tarleton.  Buford refused an initial demand to surrender, but when his men were attacked by Tarleton's cavalry, many threw down their arms to surrender.  Buford apparently attempted to surrender.  However, the British commanding officer Tarleton was shot at during the truce, having his horse fall and trap him.  Loyalists and British troops were outraged at the breaking of the truce in this manner and proceeded to fall on the rebels. <SEP> Japanese holdouts (残留日本兵 , Zanryū nipponhei , "remaining Japanese soldiers") or stragglers were Japanese soldiers in the Pacific Theatre who, after the August 1945 surrender of Japan ending World War II, either adamantly doubted the veracity of the formal surrender due to dogmatic militaristic principles, or simply were not aware of it because communications had been cut off by Allied advances. <SEP> Miller v. Davis is a federal lawsuit in the United States regarding the issuance of marriage licenses to same-sex couples.  After the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage nationwide on June 26, 2015, the county clerk of Rowan County, Kentucky, Kim Davis, refused to issue marriage licenses to any couple to avoid issuing them to same-sex couples, citing her religious beliefs.  She also refused to allow her deputies to issue the licenses, as they would still bear her title and name.  On August 12, 2015, U.S. District Judge David L. Bunning ordered Davis to issue marriage licenses to all couples.  He stayed his ruling until August 31, at her request, while she sought a stay pending appeal.  A federal appeals court denied the stay, followed by the Supreme Court who also refused to stay the ruling.  On September 3, Judge Bunning ordered Davis jailed for contempt of court until she complies with the order.  Davis was released on September 8, following her deputy clerks issuing marriage licenses to the plaintiffs during her jailing.  On September 14, Davis returned to work where she is not standing in the way of her clerks issuing licenses, though she questions their validity.  The case was dismissed as moot on April 19, 2016. <SEP>  The Allies had taken control of all strategically and economically important locations of Luzon by March 1945, although pockets of Japanese resistance held out in the mountains until the unconditional surrender of Japan. The Battle of Luzon, fought 9 January – 15 August 1945, was a land battle of the Pacific Theater of Operations of World War II by the Allied forces of the U.S., its colony the Philippines, and allies against forces of the Empire of Japan.  The battle resulted in a U.S. and Filipino victory.  While not the highest in U.S. casualties, it is the highest net casualty battle U.S. forces fought in World War II, with 192,000 to 205,000 Japanese combatants dead (mostly from starvation and disease), 10,000 American combatants killed, and between 120,000 to 140,000 Filipino civilians and combatants killed.