relatively few Japanese of my generation or younger are familiar with the Occupation, when an earlier Japanese generation inflicted untold misery on the people of Singapore. It was not until I had a ...

Japanese occupation of Singapore On December 8, 1941, Japanese troops landed in Kota Bharu and then advanced rapidly to occupy the Malay Peninsula, with their sights set squarely on Singapore.

My brother Richard was born in Singapore General Hospital on Sunday 11th January 1942. Mother and baby in hospital for 7 days. Patients had to lie under their beds during the Japanese air raids.

A new documentary of the Japanese Occupation of Singapore will be screened today, with a public forum afterwards, to mark the end of World War II 70 years ago. The film's producer, the World War ...

It was part of a Curtin government campaign that contributed to a state of panic across the nation in 1942 after the fall of Singapore ... the stories of a Japanese invasion plan, foiled only ...

The killings were part of the Japanese invasion of the island, according to a Singapore government website. Mass grave of Black Union soldiers slaughtered during the Civil War may lie under a ...

Syonanto (Singapore) 1942 - 1945 Syonanto 1941 to 1945 Flight from the Japanese Invasion of Singapore Kenneth S Burns: My War - Memories of a Prisoner of War - Part I A Trip Around the World ...

On the night of 8 February, two divisions of the Japanese invasion force crossed the straits and landed on Singapore Island. Singapore's defence was ineffective; by morning, around 13,000 Japanese ...