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unusual facts about Japanese Occupation of Singapore


Singapore Standard Time

Following the Japanese occupation, Malaya adopted Tokyo time of GMT+9 on 15 February 1942.


Images of Singapore

There are numerous exhibitions, covering the pre-British period of Malaysian rule, British colonialism, the founding of colonial Singapore by Thomas Stamford Raffles, the Japanese occupation, and the post-colonialist era under Singapore's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew .

Perry Park, Brisbane

In the 1940s it was used as a base for the Z Special Unit of the Australian, British and New Zealand armed forces for their 1943 raid on Japanese occupied Singapore harbour.


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Lim Bo Seng

In 1997, Singapore's Chinese-language television channel TCS Eighth Frequency (now MediaCorp Channel 8) aired a television drama, The Price of Peace, about the Japanese occupation of Singapore.