The extract below from Lee Kuan Yew's memoirs tells us how a Japanese soldiers treated a local during the first month of the occupation:
"One afternoon, while siting on the veranda at 28 Norfolk Road, I watched a Japanese soldier pay off a rickshaw puller. The rickshaw puller pleaded for a little more money. The soldier took out the man's arm, put it over his shoulders , and flung him into the air with a judo throw. The rickshaw puller fell flat on his face. After a while, he picked himself up and staggered off between the shafts off his rickshaw. I was shocked at the heartlessness."
Adapted from The Singapore Story : Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew by lee Kuan Yew.
Another aspect of life during the Japanese occupation was the propaganda campaigns carried out by the Japanese. This was done to influenced the people minds in Singapore so that they would be loyal to the Japanese.
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