Singapore's hidden history

[GoldenDragon]

The cops here are trained to look for paint/glue/petrol sniffing, and maybe the very occasional heroin, opium, and ganja. Child's play things. U bring in crack cocaine, regular cocaine, meth, bongs, pipes, LSD, 'shrooms, extasy pills, etc. in your luggage, I am not sure if they will find it. If you smoke some of this in front of them, they will have no idea what it is.

Being their 'rice bowl', CNB chaps will be au fait with what you listed. But the young matamata won't. While educational qualifications within the police is rising, standards are dropping. What a joke!

 

[Harry Lee]

Hidden History : The Good Japanese Spy

Mamoru Shinozaki (b. 19 February 1908, Japan – d. 1991) was a Japanese government official stationed in Singapore before and during the Japanese Occupation. Sometimes referred to as the “Japanese Schindler”, Shinozaki is known for issuing government passes that saved the lives of many Chinese and Eurasians. He was also remembered for other humanitarian acts during the Occupation.

In 1940, Shinozaki brought Japanese army invasion planners to tour Malaya. One of their observations was that Singapore was heavily defended against an attack by sea, and any invasion would have to come from the north.

Upon returning to Singapore, Shinozaki was put on trial for espionage and sentenced to three and a half years in Changi prison. After Japanese troops took Singapore in February 1942, he was released and given the title of Advisor of Defence Headquarters, a rank equivalent to Lieutenant-Colonel.

Shinozaki learned of Operation Clean-Up, which led to the Sook Ching massacre, when a Chinese nurse sought his help during a round-up of civilians. He managed to save about 2,000 people, including the nurse’s father and brother, from the Japanese. After he witnessed the cruelty of the Japanese Kempeitai, Shinozaki began printing cards providing protection and safe passage to their bearers. He printed a total of about 30,000 cards.

(My uncle, a volunteer with the Local Defence Forces, was given such a pass, without which he could not have had returned home......)

In his working capacity at the Defence Headquarters, Shinozaki deliberately stored food supplies at the Thomson Road welfare home of the Little Sisters of the Poor so that there would have a ready supply of food for the Home. He also established re-settlement camps in south Malaya for Chinese and Eurasians. To this end, he even provided rice as bribes to the Anti Japanese resistance fighters of the MPAJA so that the fighters would not disturb the settlers.

When the Japanese surrendered in 1945, Shinozaki was arrested and detained some 6,800 other Japanese civilians in a camp in Jurong. (RAF-Jurong, the current 3rd Div Jurong Camp 1). However, the Chinese and Catholic communities petitioned the British on his behalf and he was released.

Shinozaki was a witness in a number of post-war trials, including that of Eurasian community leader C. J. Paglar, who was accused of collaborating with the Japanese. Shinozaki’s testimony helped to save Paglar.

Shinozaki died of an illness in Tokyo in 1991.

He later wrote a book called "Syonan — My Story" which outlined his role in the war.

In his book, Shinozaki also wrote about the death of 10,000 Japanese after their surrender, as a result of malnutrition and sickness, compared with just 135 executed for war-crimes. Was this intentional on the part of the victors as revenge? No historian has done any research on this as yet.

 

[Harry Lee]

In the Japanese Cemetery at Yio Chu Kang Road is an inscription :

"In memory of the souls of the Labour Force comprising Army and Navy personnel who died in Singapore between September 1945 and April 1947'

It describes the ashes of 10,000 Japanese war dead. However, Jap casualties amounted to merely 5200 dead for the 1941/42 Malayan campaign. Perhaps several hundred others died during the Occupation. Did the others perish after the war?

 

[Rogue Trader]

The hit was then ordered and his body was found floating off Clifford Pier. He was abducted from his car, beaten up, bound and gagged including his face wrapped with masking tape and put in a laundry bag and padlocked. While still alive, he was thrown into the sea. The recovered body also had the name card of an Intelligence Senior Officer of a Singapore body.

The victim's name was Tommy chui. Face was mutilated when floating body was found.

Found more info here:
http://lists.essential.org/1998/intl-tobacco/msg00186.html

 

[Harry Lee]

Chinese men came to Singapore without their wives in the 19th Century. Many married local women.

Some bought women from Bugis slave traders. Lucky slaves, they became wives of the new rich.. ....this was witnessed by Munshi Abdullah, Raffles' Malay language teacher...

That's how Peranakan culture started.......

 

[kingrant]

Are you calling LKY's father. great grandpa etcs adulterers and polygamous?

Chinese men came to Singapore without their wives in the 19th Century. Many married local women.

Some bought women from Bugis slave traders. Lucky slaves, they became wives of the new rich.. ....this was witnessed by Munshi Abdullah, Raffles' Malay language teacher...

That's how Peranakan culture started.......

 

[kingrant]

Something wrong here....he wrote book after he died??

Hidden History : The Good Japanese Spy



Shinozaki died of an illness in Tokyo in 1991.

He later wrote a book called "Syonan — My Story" which outlined his role in the war.

 

[Harry Lee]

sorry... typo :(

Shinozaki wrote the book in 1975

He described how crematoriums worked non stopped during the period after World War 2 (1945-1947) because of the large number of Japanese who died in captivity. Many others suffered from Beri beri.

If true, it would mean that the British underfed their POWs so that many became sick and died.

Was it intentional? If so, was it revenge? Or were the circumstances such that everyone suffered, and the POWs got the worst because they were at the bottom of the food chain?

Remember that thousands of Boer prisoners kept in British concentration camps lost their lives during the Boer War in South Africa. And these were white people......including 26,000 women and children. Black prisoners fared worse with a death rate of 12%

White Boer child in British Concentration Camp - Lizzie van Zyl who died in the Bloemfontein concentration camp: her mother was one of the "undesirables" due to the fact that her father neither surrendered nor betrayed his people, Lizzie was placed on the lowest rations and so perished.

 

[LeeLaoPeh]

Many world wars 2 japanese soldier are chinese . You all maybe dont believes it , but some of the japanese soldier speaked to us in hokkien and hainanese. Where they come from , how and why they ends up as japanese soldier is a mysterys.
For so many years I wish to hears one of their storys but no one dare to declare he is a hanjian.

 

[Watchman]

Many world wars 2 japanese soldier are chinese . You all maybe dont believes it , but some of the japanese soldier speaked to us in hokkien and hainanese. Where they come from , how and why they ends up as japanese soldier is a mysterys.
For so many years I wish to hears one of their storys but no one dare to declare he is a hanjian.

Yes it's possible somehow .

* The following illustrates a possible time traveler

 

[moolightaffairs]

Many world wars 2 japanese soldier are chinese . You all maybe dont believes it , but some of the japanese soldier speaked to us in hokkien and hainanese. Where they come from , how and why they ends up as japanese soldier is a mysterys.
For so many years I wish to hears one of their storys but no one dare to declare he is a hanjian.

bro, i shared this in this forum before. they are a lot of chinese(taiwanese) and korean troops in the japanese troops. some japanese troops used to work for my grandfather in plantation for food when war coming to end and they got no ration to eat! thats the period after japanese surrender and british not back yet.

beside japanese, quite a lot were from taiwan and korea. those japanese troops will bring those army stuff from the camp to trade for food.

some came will communicate with my grandfather by writing! although they cant speak chinese, but they can write very well chinese words! from what i know those were the Koreans in the japanese troops.

as for taiwanese troops, they can speak very well hokkien and mandarin.

i wonder why this is not recorded in the history. this is what older generations Singaporean true encounters!

 

[moolightaffairs]

deleted. wrong thread. sorry

 

[Windsor]

The origins of the Pernakans started in the 15th Century, when a princess was sent to Malacca to marry the Sultan of Malacca. She brought along 500 sons of ministers to settle there and that was the origin of Bukit Cina in Malacca. Due to hardships, waves of Mainland Chinese traveled to East India (Indonesia, Malaya and Singapore) where they intermarried with the local Malays. Needless to say, Perakans traveled frequently amongst these countries, which brought about similarity in their culture such as Peranakan cuisine. The Buah Keluak is a very good example of such intermingling as the Buah Keluak (actually not a fruit, but a nut dug below the ground), does not originate either from Singapore or the Malay Peninsula.

Chinese men came to Singapore without their wives in the 19th Century. Many married local women.

Some bought women from Bugis slave traders. Lucky slaves, they became wives of the new rich.. ....this was witnessed by Munshi Abdullah, Raffles' Malay language teacher...

That's how Peranakan culture started.......

 

[Harry Lee]

HIDDEN HISTORY - Yu Sheng ORIGINATED IN SINGAPORE IN 1964

It is believed that Yusheng has its origins in southern China. Legend has it that a young man and his girlfriend found themselves stranded by bad weather at a temple with nothing to eat but a carp they had caught. Chancing upon a bottle of vinegar, they added this to the stripped carp and found it quite appetising.

Today's colourful version of Yusheng and the practice of eating it on the seventh day of Chinese New Year appear to be unique to Malaysia and Singapore. Four local chefs are credited for developing Yusheng IN 1964 as we know it today. They named the dish "Lucky Raw Fish" and popularised it as a New Year delicacy. The chefs are Lau Yeok Pui and Tham Yui Kai, master chefs at Lai Wah Restaurant along Jalan Besar, and their good friends Sin Leong and Hooi Kok Wai. They had previously been colleagues at the Cathay Restaurant at Cathay Building.

 

[Received_by_Kings]

The extract from a family blog tells of Jap and Koean soldiers lynched outside Changi jail immediately after World War 2. This is not in our history books....

Nothing wrong with that. Relax.

 

[Harry Lee]

Hidden History : Cliff Richard banned from entering Singapore - 1972

In 1972, Singapore banned Cliff Richard from entering and performing because of the anti-yellow culture campaign. His hair was deemed to be too long.

Looking back, we see how silly Singapore was in those days.... squeaky clean Cliff Richard banned from squeaky clean Singapore.

Here is a sample of his music - If I Give My Heart To You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-xdZ-H1WQc

Alamak... kena banned for this....

 

[Dreamer1]

Hidden History : Cliff Richard banned from entering Singapore - 1972

In 1972, Singapore banned Cliff Richard from entering and performing because of the anti-yellow culture campaign. His hair was deemed to be too long.

Looking back, we see how silly Singapore was in those days.... squeaky clean Cliff Richard banned from squeaky clean Singapore.

Here is a sample of his music - If I Give My Heart To You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-xdZ-H1WQc

Alamak... kena banned for this....

That was the time wiseman MM LKY(???) decided that western decant powers are ste on destroying his PURE Singapore,out with Neon Lights too.Till today.

out with racing cars,racing bike too.

It is funny that when MM LKY gets older,he tries his best to follow the fashiionable things.

 

[Watchman]

In the early 70s government offices in Singapore clamped down on males sporting long hair because it spelt gangsterism.
For present generation readers who don't believe this is true, the above poster from the 70s National Library Archives proves it.
To make matters worse, the country discouraged and finally banned pop music as it was termed "yellow culture".
Singapore's pop music industry faded after all its glory and support from the 60s public.
A thriving and decent way for both amateur and professional musicians to make an honest living died an
unnatural death. Many enthusiasts moaned the local pop music's demise and up to this day the industry never recovered.
The Golden Age of Pop Music... will it ever make a comeback?
Image: National Heritage Board, Singapore.

 

[Watchman]

Anyone remember the incident many years ago
when Kitaro was refused entry to Singapore at
the airport customs because of his long hair?
He was supposed to visit Singapore for his live
concert and the concert was cancelled because of that...

 

[hairylee]

Anyone remember the incident many years ago
when Kitaro was refused entry to Singapore at
the airport customs because of his long hair?
He was supposed to visit Singapore for his live
concert and the concert was cancelled because of that...

Nowadays if a student shave bald will get suspended from school.