17 (Xinhua) -- Singapore's Minister for Communications and Information Yaacob Ibrahim announced on Friday to change the name of newly-launched World War II exhibition "Syonan Gallery: War and Its Legacies" to "Surviving the Japanese Occupation: War and its Legacies." In a statement released ...
Starting in Beach Road we will briefly explore the old 1930s Army buildings there, now part of the South Beach development. Then cross to Raffles Hotel. It was often used by the Japanese during the Occupation—when it was known as Syonan Ryokan, incorporating ‘syonan’ (“Light of the ...
Singapore was originally a British colony, serving as a major trading port in Southeast Asia. InFebruary 15th, 1942, the Japanese seized control of Singapore from the British. TheJapanese occupationwas devastating to Singapore; the loss of infrastructure and the shattered economy left its citizens ...
World War II (WWII) and the years leading to Singapore's independence were some of the country's most formative years. The war had plunged the island into extended economic depression, with many people finding new ways to survive during the Japanese Occupation and after. Singapore's post-war...
Commemorate the fight of brave men and women during World War II in Malaya and Singapore, and the trials and tribulations of their subsequent internment. Turn back the clock in Changi, once the site of many prisoner-of-war camps during the Japanese Occupation, the nexus of much pain and suf...
Japanese occupation during WWII. It’s been a real learning experience to keep running into these memorials all over Europe and Asia to that horrible war and the awful things the Germans and Japanese did. I think it’s a tribute to our ability to forgive and forget that people don’t ...
Step out toChangi Prison Museum and Chapellocated at 1000 Upper Changi Rd N. The museum focuses on Singapore’s involvement and history during WWII, especially the period of Japanese occupation. Check In, Step Out Check in toYOTELAIR Changi Airport, located atJewelwhich features air c...
He was a pioneer in Singapore’s public transportation, but also a feisty patriot who started and led his own self defence force of 20,000 during the onset of the Japanese Occupation of Singapore in World War 2. His grave located near the Bukit Brown cemetery gates is a fairly well mainta...
What there is to see:As indicated, the points of interest from a dark-tourism perspective in Singapore revolve almost exclusively around the topic of WWII and the period of the Japanese occupation. These are the main sites given their own separate chapters here: ...
The British honoured all the pre-war money after the end of Japanese occupation. Goh Keng Swee, Singapore’s first Finance Minister, a classical economist who had studied at the London School of Economics, kept it intact. “That was to Dr Goh’s great credit,” Ngiam recalled. “He believ...