Meeting out harsh punishments

• targetted criminals and perceived enemies
• beheaded looters and displayed heads on Cathay Building to scare locals
• Kempeitai > Japanese military police arrested those suspected to be anti-jap
• Kempeitai gave food/cash rewards encouraging ppl to inform them of anti-jap
• arrested ppl would be killed or tortured or beaten

Imprisoning Allied soldiers

• made aus, brit + other allied euro including women and children march from Bukit Timah road to Changi prison

Carrying out Operation Sook Ching

• 'Cleansing Operation' Kempeitai identified and eliminated anti-jap ppl
• targeted Chinese bc jap faced resistance in war with the Chinese and some Chinese in Sg supported efforts in China - eg by organizing a boycott of Jap goods & donated money to China's war efforts
• 100 000 may have been killed
• all Chinese men aged 18-50 had to report at mass screening centres to be examined by jap

Coercing the Chinese Business Community

• targeted due to great donations to China relief fund
• Overseas Chinese Association [OCA] set-up to act as a channel between the jap govt and Chinese community
• OCA had to give $50 million straits dollars to jap as punishment to Chinese community

• Propaganda was used to win over the support of the Indian community
• Jap promised to help free India from Brit colonial rule
• Jap helped set up Indian National Army [INA] to recruit Indians to fight against Brit in India

Providing Benefits

• provided certain benefits eg. schooling, accommodation at no cost, eg. gave 20 000 children free tb
• favorable treatment is given to Malay and Indian communities

• taught jap
• students had to learn to speak jap and write jap instead of English
• Nippon-go lessons were conducted daily over school broadcasting services
• published Nippon-go readers for beginners
• adults eg teachers have to learn
• awards, competitions, salary increments, extra rations, and promotions used to encourage

• allowed some ppl to make it look like a happy and harmonious society
• radio programs played jap songs, Malay music, etc.
• free screenings of propaganda shows
• encouraged sports and cultural activities to reduce stress

War disrupted trade

• limited import of goods in Sg
• most available resources went to the Japanese for their war efforts
• rationing of essential foods like rice, sugar, salt
• shortages caused prices to increase causing inflation
• black market flourished, goods sold at unreasonable prices
• exsessive printing of banana notes meant drastic fall in value

• healthcare and sanitation standards worsened
• food shortages and malnutrition weakened the ppl > leading to a high death rate
• POW and civilian prisoners suffered harsh living conditions, eg. overcrowding, shortage of food and medicine
• poor hygiene and the spread of disease

• jap encouraged ppl to be self-sufficient by growing their own food
• failure led to jap needing to relocate ppl from Sg to Malaya to increase agriculture output
• relocated Eurasians and Chinese Roman Catholics to Bahau settlement in Negri Sembilan
• Hilly terrain and poor soil resulted in failure and severe food shortage

Operated in jungles and launched attackks on Japanese troops

Aroused anti-Jap sentiments by making posters

Schooling, accomodations, sugar, salt, rice for Hari Raya

Rice producing countries unable to produce enough rice to export

Banana notes were no longer a currency due to value fall during war