New Perspectives of the Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45

New Perspectives of the Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45

New Perspectives of the Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45

New Perspectives of the Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45

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Overview

Information on the Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore is sparse, and Japanese-language materials are particularly difficult to find because the Japanese military systematically destroyed war-related documents when the war ended. The contributors to this volume participated in a Forum that spent four years locating surviving materials relating to the Occupation of Malaya. The group had three objectives: to collect primary sources, to interview Japanese military and civilian officials who took part in the military administration and people in Malaysia and Singapore who experienced the period, and to publish the results of the studies. Based on interviews with Japanese, Malaysians and Singaporeans who lived through the war years and materials gathered from archives and libraries in Britain, Malaysia, Singapore, USA, Australia, and India, the Forum has produced a number of Japanese-language publications. This book makes available some of their research findings in English. Topics covered include the Watanabe Military Administration, Japanese research activities in Malaya, Japan's Economic Policies, Malayan Communist Party Leaders and the Anti-Japanese Resistance, the Massacre of Chinese in Singapore, Railway Transportation during the Japanese Occupation Period, The Singapore Internment Camp for Allied Civilian Women, and the Japanese Surrender. This volume is a revised version of Akashi Yoji, ed., Nippon Senryoka no Eiryo Maraya/Shingaporu (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten Publishers Co., 2001).

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9789971692995
Publisher: Nus Press Pte Ltd
Publication date: 01/01/2008
Pages: 312
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vii

List of contributors ix

Preface xi

Introduction 1

1 The Nanyo Kyokai and British Malaya and Singapore, 1915-45 Akashi Yoji 21

2 Colonel Watanabe Wataru: The Architect of the Malayan Military Administration, December 1941-March 1943 Akashi Yoji 33

3 Leaders of the Malayan Communist Party During the Anti-Japanese War Hara Fujio 65

4 Japan's Economic Policy for Occupied Malaya Yoshimura Mako 113

5 Railway Operations in Japanese-occupied Malaya Ota Koki 139

6 Japanese Research Activities in Occupied Malaya/Syonan, 1943-45 Akashi Yoji 158

7 The Civilian Women's Internment Camp in Singapore: The World of POW WOW Nakahara Michiko 186

8 Surrendering Syonan Henry Frei 217

9 Massacre of Chinese in Singapore and Its Coverage in Postwar Japan Hayashi Hirofumi 234

10 An Annotated Bibliographical Study of the Japanese Occupation of Malaya/Singapore, 1941-45 (Published in Japanese) Akashi Yoji 250

Index 285

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