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	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Singapore remained an important part of the Malacca Sultanate; it was the fief of the admirals (laksamanas), including the famous Hang Tuah.
		Singapore fell to the Japanese on 15 February 1942, and was renamed Syonan (Light of the South).
		Singapore was separated from the rest of Malaysia on 9 August 1965, and became a sovereign, democratic and independent nation.
	asnic.utexas.edu /asnic/countries/singapore/Singapore-History.html (2141 words)

	NUS: Library: A Sense of History: Singapore, 1941-1945: The Military Campaign
		Singapore: the pregnable fortress: a study in deception, discord and desertion.
		The author was an American-educated Japanese journalist who worked with the Singapore Herald from 1939-1942 and was editor of the Syonan Shimbun during the Japanese occupation of Singapore.
		But the Japanese blamed the raid on the local population, resulting in the Double Tenth Massacre on Oct 10, 1943, in which 57 people were arrested and tortured on suspicion of involvement in the raid.
	www.lib.nus.edu.sg /bib/sh/sing1941b.html (1217 words)

	COFEPOW - South East Asia Under Japanese Occupation - Singapore at War
		Singapore's Asians were not, by and large, recruited into these organizations, mainly because the colonial government doubted their loyalty and capability.
		Singapore's Chinese population, which had heard rumors of the treatment of the Malayan Chinese by the invading Japanese, flocked to volunteer to help repel the impending invasion.
		Singapore's prominent Chinese leaders and businessmen were further disaffected when the Japanese military command bullied them into raising a S$10 million "gift" to the Japanese as a symbol of their cooperation and as reparation for their support for the government of China in its war against Japan.
	www.cofepow.org.uk /pages/asia_singapore2.html (2226 words)

	NUS: Library: A Sense of History: Singapore, 1941-1945: The Japanese Occupation, 1942-1945
		Japanese military administration in Malaya: its formation and evolution in reference to sultans, the Islamic religion and the Muslim Malays 1941-1945.
		The impact of the Japanese occupation of Malaya on Malay society and politics (1941-1945).
		A visual documentation of the Japanese occupation in Singapore (1942-1945) presented by the Archives and Oral History Department, 16 February-16 March 1985.
	www.lib.nus.edu /bib/sh/sing1941c.html (1190 words)

	AllRefer.com - Singapore - Indonesia's Destabilization Attempts, 1963-66 \| Singaporean Information Resource
		In June and July 1964, Indonesian army units infiltrated Singapore with instructions to destroy transportation and other links between the island and the state of Johor on the Malay Peninsula.
		In March 1965, however, a Singapore infantry battalion deployed on the southern coast of Johor was involved in fighting against a small Indonesian force that was conducting guerrilla operations in the vicinity of Kota Tinggi.
		Indonesia supported Singapore's separation from Malaysia in 1965 and used diplomatic and economic incentives in an unsuccessful effort to encourage the Lee administration to sever its defense ties with Malaysia and Britain.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/singapore/singapore159.html (468 words)

	The Nation: History: Pre-Independence: Japanese Occupation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		S.K. Shiiba, a Japanese businessman in pre-war Malaya, emerged as an officer during the Japanese Occupation.
		By end of January, the Japanese forces were gathered in strength across the Tebrau Straits, ready to attack the last British stronghold.
		Singapore fell on February 15, 1942, The British commanding officer, General Percival, surrendered to the commander of the invading army, General Yamashita, known as the "Tiger of Malaya".
	www.windowstomalaysia.com.my /nation/11_3_1.htm (815 words)

	The British in Singapore and Malaya
		Cut off from effective support by the war in Europe, Malaya was overrun by the end of the year and Singapore fell in February 1942.
		In alphabetical order, it records each individual's name, age, marital status, occupation, the addresses of spouses and next of kin, date of arrival and, in the remarks column where relevant, cause and date of death.
		There are two types of memorials there, for those who have a known grave and are buried beneath their marker, and for those will no known grave, who are commemorated on the walls of the memorial itself.
	user.itl.net /~glen/BritishinSingapore&Malaya.html (1208 words)

	Historical Poetics, Malaysian Cinema, and the Japanese Occupation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The influence of the Japanese Occupation, and the Japanese films exhibited in Malaya during and after the Occupation, can be seen most clearly in the films of Malaysia's "Golden Age," the 1950s and 1960s.
		Interestingly, film exhibition was one of the few areas in which the Occupation forces were successful in eliminating the English language in Malaya; the Japanese found that without the use of English, government and commerce came to a standstill, and therefore reluctantly allowed its use.
		Because Japanese films were the only ones available to the Malaysians, they patronized them and, apparently, appreciated and enjoyed them, at the same time realizing that these films were being used for purposes of propaganda.
	www.arts.uwaterloo.ca /FINE/juhde/white962.htm (5932 words)

	The Japan Times Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		SINGAPORE (Kyodo) Singapore plans a series of events to remember the Japanese invasion and occupation of the island during World War II as part of its 60th anniversary celebrations for the end of the war, according to the Singapore Tourism Board.
		Singapore was an important site in the Pacific War because the island had been regarded as an invincible British stronghold before falling to Japanese forces on Feb. 15, 1942 -- a huge victory for Japan and a major disaster for Britain's Southeast Asian dominion.
		Singapore was occupied until September 1945, when Japanese forces there officially surrendered to the Allies, about a month after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
	www.japantimes.co.jp /cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20050217f1.htm (585 words)

	COFEPOW - South East Asia Under Japanese Occupation - Singapore - The Changi Story
		The strategic importance of Singapore as a military base had been realised by Sir Stamford Raffles, many years previous, but in the early days it was not considered necessary to build fixed defences around the whole island.
		Although the defence of Singapore was becoming increasingly urgent in the face of Japan's growing urge to become more powerful than its neighbours, back in England the political and economic situation demanded that money being spent on Singapore defences be cut.
		The 18th Division, which had landed in Singapore only weeks before the capitulation, were thrown immediately into the battle and now found themselves in two barrack blocks and several huts of the India Barracks.
	www.cofepow.org.uk /pages/asia_singapore_changi_story.htm (1878 words)

	TIMEasia.com \| TIME 100: Lee Kuan Yew \| 8/23/99-8/30/99
		Lee left Singapore with a per capita GDP of $14,000 (it's now $22,000), his reputation gilt-edged and an entire tier of second-generation leaders to take over when he stepped down in 1990.
		During the Japanese occupation of Singapore he worked for a Japanese government propaganda department--although it has long been rumored that he was secretly passing intelligence to the British.
		Because of Singapore's size, its paucity of natural resources and the nature of its neighbors, Lee knew he could never fully be master of the island's destiny.
	www.time.com /time/asia/asia/magazine/1999/990823/lee1.html (1145 words)

	Singapore's history to be scattered at sea - World - www.smh.com.au
		One of Singapore's biggest graveyards, the final resting place of much of the island's Christian population for most of the 20th century, is in the final stages of being emptied.
		The work is due to finish by the end of the year, so one morning during the next four months the exhumation workers will break open the thin concrete cover of the tomb, dig down to the coffin.
		In July 1880 he was first mate on a pilgrim ship, the Jeddah, when the boilers began to leak and the captain and officers abandoned the vessel, leaving the Muslim travellers on board to their fate.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/08/20/1092972755888.html (616 words)

	AsianWeek.com: A&E: Exhibit Shows Chaos of Japanese Occupation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		“In general, I was showing how the Japanese had really lost their humanity,” Liu said in Chinese through an interpreter, as he pointed with his cane at the ink sketches along the wall.
		Japan is still coming to grips with the excesses of the war machine it unleashed on Asia in the earlier half of this century.
		Liu’s sketches of the horrors during the war prompted Japanese exchange students who viewed the exhibit to speak with him and express remorse, he said.
	www.asianweek.com /2000_06_29/ae2_chopsuey.html (870 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Japanese occupation during World War II During the Second World War, Portugal declared a policy of neutrality.
		The island became a stage of war between Japanese and the allieds.
		Following general L. Chassin, cited by Carvalho <Japanese tide extended itself irresistibly beyond paralyzed and impotent adversaries.>> In the middle of February they invaded Sumatra occupying Palembang, soon after Singapore is attacked and many Englishmen are made prisoners.
	www.uc.pt /timor/jap.occupation.html (455 words)

	The Other Holocaust : Nanjing Massacre, Sex Slaves, Opium, WMD Unit 731, 100, 516, and Slavery
		Japanese Dr. Kanisawa testified in NBC Dateline "Factory of Death: Unit 731" in Aug. 15, 1995, the live un-anesthetized dissection was a routine common practice in all units.
		Japanese showered 7 WMD Biological pathogens on Zhejiang province to retaliate the Doolittle Tokyo Raid.
		On the 3rd day of Japanese occupation of Singapore, the Japanese General ordered all those Chinese, age from 18 to 55, who fought against the Japanese invading force to be interned and then were truck away and never to be heard from since.
	www.skycitygallery.com /japan/japan.html (16922 words)

	The Japanese occupation of Singapore (CDB100620) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Events in Singapore under Japanese occupation are treated in Volume 3 of "Hiroku dai Toa senshi" (The Great East Asian War).
		Part of his resistance consisted of secretly collecting accounts of Japanese who were as horrified as he by the actions of the evil regime that had taken over his country.
		Forms of racial descrimination never practiced by the British were imposed." According to these sources: Singapore boys schools were closed and converted to Japanese army barracks, the students becoming servants of the Japanese.
	yarchive.net /mil/singapore_japanese_occupation.html (405 words)

	NUS: Library: A Sense of History: Singapore, 1941-1945: The Japanese Occupation, 1942-1945: Personal Accounts
		Memoir of Takao Fusayama: a Japanese soldier in Malaya and Singapore.
		A poignant account of the horrors of the Death Railway by Tan Choon Keng, a Singaporean who served as a hospital assistant in the “death camps” in Thailand from 1943 to 1945.
		Drawings by a female internee of life in Changi gaol and Sime Road camp during the Japanese occupation.
	www.lib.nus.edu /bib/sh/sing1941d.html (232 words)

	Japanese Occupation
		The Japanese wanted to curb anti-Japanese activities, as well as to punish the Chinese who had provided aid to the Chinese activists in the Sino-Japanese conflict.
		The people of Singapore were encouraged to grow their own vegetables.
		The Shonan Times was the official newspaper in Singapore during the Japanese Occupation.
	ourstory.asia1.com.sg /war/ref/japocc.html (543 words)

	★ Reviews of books about singapore
		Learning the truth behind who REALLY founded Singapore, the details of the Japanese Occupation in Singapore, the British's impact on Malaya, and the many religions practiced was made extremely interesting through Baker's words and thoughts.
		By Singapore standards, however, he was flawed in that he was compassionate as he gave legal assistance to political detainees in Singapore.
		This is one reason perhaps why the editors shied away from using the word "Diaspora" with its intimations of permanent rupture, preferring instead a title which asserts the centrality of "China" as a location and as an idea despite the increasingly disputed and diverse nature of the communities it claims to represent.
	singapore.vacationbookreview.com /singapore_6.html (4101 words)

	Japanese Occupation of Singapore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Pupils have learnt of the reasons behind the fall of Singapore to the Japanese
		The teacher will project digitised photographs showing scenes of life in Singapore during the Japanese Occupation.
		The teacher will end the lesson by leading pupils to conclude that life during the Japanese Occupation was difficult for the people in Singapore.
	www.rosyth.moe.edu.sg /social/lessons/war/occupation.html (355 words)

	Asian Intro Page
		Civilian Internees of the Japanese in Singapore during WWII and Civilian Internees Messages 2001
		This might be of particular interest to those whose relatives lived here and perhaps were interned or died during the Japanese occupation of Java.
		I would be willing to help anyone searching for the grave of a relative, likely to be found in these areas, or to locate and photograph any buildings or sites relevant to their family's history.
	user.itl.net /~glen/asianintro.html (1168 words)

	Lee Kuan Yew's Political Lessons from the Japanese Occupation of Singapore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		It was the white civilians and government officers in Penang who, on 16 December 1941, in the quiet of the night, fled the island for the "safety" of Singapore, abandoning the Asiatics to their fate.
		three and a half years of Japanese occupation were the most important of my life.
		That was not my experience in Singapore before the war, during the Japanese occupation or subsequently.
	www.hsse.nie.edu.sg /staff/kahack/cc%204.3%20(LKY).html (356 words)

	Lee Kuan Yew's Political Lessons from the Japanese Occupation of Singapore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		First of all, he observed "a whole social system" built upon assumptions of British military and cultural superiority "crumble suddenly before an occupying army that was absolutely merciless.
		I had not yet read Mao's dictum that "power grows out of the barrel of a gun", but I knew that Japanese brutality, Japanese guns, Japanese bayonets and swords, and Japanese terror and torture.
		The Japanese not only demanded and got their obedience; they forced them to adjust to a long-term prospect of Japanese rule, so that they had their children educated to fit the new system, its language, its habits and its values, in order to be useful and make a living.
	www.scholars.nus.edu.sg /landow/post/singapore/government/leekuanyew/lky12.html (404 words)

	Syonan My Story: The Japanese Occupation of Singapore (Reprinted 2001) (Select Books)
		Imprisoned in 1940 as a spy by the British, he was released when the Japanese invaded Singapore.
		He was appointed Director of Education in the occupation government, and later became head of the Welfare Department.
		This story of Syonan, told touchingly and with some humor, should be read by all interested in that period of Singapore history.
	www.selectbooks.com.sg /titles/3627.htm (180 words)

	Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Burma, Tibet, & Mongolia
		The Japanese occupation, of course, did not end without a new national trauma being introduced -- the Russian occupation of the northern part of the country and then the establishment there of a Communist regime.
		No one, however, believed that this "alliance" was at all voluntary on the part of the Thais, and the Kingdom, freed from Japanese occupation, was unmolested by the Allies after the War.
		But by the time the Japanese got around to invading India in 1944, they were well past their prime; and the army that was sent, and defeated, didn't even have enough supplies to make a regular retreat.
	www.friesian.com /perigoku.htm (7864 words)

	Cyndi's List - Asia & The Pacific
		Established to collect, preserve, study, exhibit, and interpret historical artifacts and archival material covering the history of Japanese Canadian Society from the 1870's through World War II to the present day.
		Some biographical details and photographs of personnel of a militia company formed by the British Military at Singapore in the late 19th and early 20th century.
		The final page of the list of residents in Singapore, 1904, who were qualifed to act as jurors.
	www.cyndislist.com /asia.htm (2560 words)

	MALAYA AND SINGAPORE DURING THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION - Kratoska, Paul H., editor
		Abu Talib Ahmad discusses relations between the Japanese and the Malay/Muslim population, while Yoji Akashi and Hara Fujio consider the Chinese population.
		The other two articles, by Patricia Lim Pui Huen and Henry Frei look at how the Occupation is remembered in Japan and in Malaya.
		Taken as a whole, this volume offers a fresh look at the Occupation and its consequences for the people of Malaya and of Japan.
	www.tambooks.com /si/10840.html (135 words)

	BookkooB: Malaya and Singapore During the Japanese Occupation -
		BookkooB: Malaya and Singapore During the Japanese Occupation -
		Above you will see a list of UK book stores, along with their stock and price details for Malaya and Singapore During the Japanese Occupation by.
		View other editions of Malaya and Singapore During the Japanese Occupation.
	www.bookkoob.co.uk /book/9971624176.htm (238 words)

	LHCMA Research guides: The Far East
		Papers, 1938-1974, including notes on encephalitis and on respiratory tract infection, Singapore, 1958-1959; incidents of snake bite and the use of anti-venom, 1958-1962; photographs of Malaya, 1958-1961; lecture notes on the health of troops in a tropical climate, 1960; report and photographs on flood relief operations, Vientiane, Laos, Sep 1966.
		File of copy papers, 1943-1945, comprising an account of the treatment of H Force during their work on the Burma-Thailand railway, 1943, written in 1945; a notebook containing financial accounts and a register of deaths for 5 Battalion, H Force, 1943; an account of the experiences of 1 Subsection, H Force, Sep-Nov 1943.
		Diaries, and letters of Megan and Ernest Spooner to their son and her parents, covering the period from R Adm Spooner's posting to Singapore to her evacuation, 10 Feb 1942; press cuttings, photographs, and some correspondence relating to the discovery of R Adm Spooner's grave in 1945.
	www.kcl.ac.uk /lhcma/guides/fareast.htm (3264 words)

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