How did the locals respond to the Japanese rule

Question 1

How did the locals respond to the Japanese rule

Answer 1

• collaborated with Japanese willingly/ threatened/forced by circumstances to do so
• actively resisted

Question 2

collaboration

Answer 2

Japanese actively sought support of Malays in administering Japanese rule
e.g. policing & being part of neighbourhood associations reporting on suspected hostile activity against regime
Chinese who became informants for Kempeitai during Operation Sook Ching to help root out those seen to be anti-Japanese

Question 3

resistance

Answer 3

7 senior officers of Malay Regiment refused to pledge loyalty to and fight for Japan -> executed
some took arms & joined resistance forces in response to ill-treatment of locals
Malayan People’s Anti-Japanese Army MPAJA
Force 136
both groups worked with British
carried out sabotage attacks on Japanese officers and men
aroused anti-Japanese sentiments among ppl by distributing anti-Japanese newspapers & posters
Force 136, secret organisation set up by British gathered info abt Japanese and organise sabotage activities

Question 4

Resistance (Lim Bo Seng)

Answer 4

local businessman
during war between china and japan in 1930s, he organised anti-Japanese activities e.g. boycott of Japanese goods
after fall of sg, recruited as agent of force 136, linked up with local resistance organisations e.g. Malayan Communist Party (fight Japanese through guerilla tactics)
March 1944, captured and tortured for info
however, he didn’t reveal any info to his captors
29 June 1944 died in prison

Question 5

Resistance (Elizabeth Choy)

Answer 5

worked as a canteen operator with husband at the Mental Hospital (present day IMH)
secretly delivered food, money, medicine and messages
imprisoned and tortured by Japanese at the Kempeitai headquarters on Stamford Road (close to 200 days)
after war, didn’t name torturers, said they acted that way due to war circumstances
awarded Order of the British Empire (OBE) and Order of the Star of Sarawak