life under the Japanese Occupation

Question 1

what are the ways the Japanese used to rule Singapore?
(hint: characterised into 2 main ways)

Answer 1

1. use of force
   - Sook Ching
   - arrest of Allied soldiers
   - arrest of Anti-Japanese movements and locals
   - Kempeitai
2. appeal to locals
   - propaganda
   - building schools
   - collaboration with locals

Question 2

what is Sook Ching?

Answer 2

a mass killing conducted by the Japanese targeted at Singaporean Chinese

Question 3

why was Sook Ching carried out?

Answer 3

• the Japanese had always been suspicious of the Chinese due to longstanding tensions between China and Japan
• the Chinese had boycotted Japanese goods
• the Japanese wanted to purge Anti-Japanese elements from Singapore –> reduce opposition

Question 4

how did the locals respond to the Japanese?

Answer 4

1. Resistance
   - anti-Japanese movements
2. Collaboration
   - Indian collaboration with the Japanese

Question 5

what is the name of one of the most prominent anti-Japanese resistance groups in Singapore?

Answer 5

Force 136

Question 6

who were the important war heroes who resisted against the Japanese?

Answer 6

1. Lim Bo Seng –> resistance fighter who was a prominent member of Force 136, he refused to reveal any information despite being tortured
2. Elizabeth Choy –> she secretly supplied money, medicine and food to the prisoners of war at Changi prison, was captured and tortured by japanese