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History Group Essay Question: How far did Japanese Occupation change the lives of teenagers?

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History Group Essay Question: How far did Japanese Occupation change the lives of teenagers?

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We can infer that the Japanese occupation had changed the teenagers lives greatly.

Before the Japanese Occupation, some teenagers worked as coolies to support their families. While during the Japanese Occupation, many of the males were taken away and forced to work on the Death Railway for food. This shows how it changed from them being granted freedom to them being forced to work for food.

Before 1942, one of the teengare’s entertainment was Happy world, having fun and enjoying themselves but once the Japanese occupation started, all was lost. Happy World turned into a gambling farm. I think that it had really changed part of their everyday lives.

The food pricings were significantly cheaper. However, as the Japanese printed an excessive amount of notes,there was an in the pricings. They also received less food as there was a scarcity of it and had to travel far and was time consuming. These shows that food was much harder to get, be it in terms of pricing or time and the teenagers could have restricted food supply for themselves.

Previously, only male teenagers were required to take part in education. It was showed in the English school and school libraries before WWII. This was in one of the British first’s school policy. However, during 1942, education was essential for both males and females had to take part in studies. Therefore, I can say that the teenagers had changed in school life as they had to learn in Japanese and the females would have to study.

Therefore, we can conclude that the occupation had changed them extensively.

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Source G: Health and food before the occupation 

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Source G: Health and food before the occupation 

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Description :Prices of food products in 1941 compared to 1945
Date:1941 and 1945
Source type: Written report in a newspaper

Rice - 1 picul (about 60.5kg) $5 in 1941 $5,000 in 1945
Egg - 1 dozen $0.24 in 1941 $120 in 1945
Quinine powder  $1.50 in 1941 $15 in 1945
Shophouse  5,000 - 6,000 in 1941 160,000 - 250,000 in 1945

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Source A: Leisure & Recreation before the Japanese Occupation

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Source A: Leisure & Recreation before the Japanese Occupation

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Description:  Activities held in Gay World,also known as Happy World
Date: 1936
Source Type: Written

Before the war, patrons at Happy World were kept enthralled by an east-meets-west mix of entertainment: cabaret, ronggeng, bangsawan,wayang, movies, gaming, sport matches, stunts, circus and shopping. The fees to these recreations were affordable, even to youths.

Source Origin: National Library Board

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Source H: Health and food during Japanese Occupation

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Source H: Health and food during Japanese Occupation

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Description:An interview with a grandmother about health and food before the Japanese Occupation
Date: April 2012
Source Type: Interview

We had to carry our identification cards and wait in a long line to get our rations,” Ah Ma recalled. “Different items were distributed at different places, rice could be in the east and kerosene in the west, so we had to cover great distances before we could buy them.”

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Source C: School Life before the Japanese Occupation 

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Source C: School Life before the Japanese Occupation 

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Description: Before the Japanese Occupation, The British only allowed males to take part in education it was their first education policy
Date: 1819
Source Type: Written

To educate the sons of higher order of natives and others

Source Origin: English schools and school libraries before WWII

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Source E: Jobs before Japanese Occupation

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Source E: Jobs before Japanese Occupation

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Description: Getting food from working

Date:2003
Source Type: Oral Interview

I had to endure with very little income for my own self because most of the money that I got as my salary would be used to support my family

Source Origin: National Institute of Education (NIE)

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Source F: Jobs after Japanese Occupation

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Source F: Jobs after Japanese Occupation

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Description: Getting food from forced labour
Date:-
Source Type: Written Source

if you worked, you would get food. If you did not work, you would get no food

Source Origin: History Learning Site

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Source B: Leisure & Recreation during Japanese Occupation

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Source B: Leisure & Recreation during Japanese Occupation

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Description: What happened to Gay World during the Japanese occupation
Date:1942
Source Type: Written

During the Japanese Occupation, the Japanese turned all the Worlds into gambling farms, encouraging Chinese businessmen, like the Shaw Brothers, to run the parks as gambling dens. As these dens were precluded from raids, the bright lights at the Worlds continued.

Source Origin: National Library Board

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Source D: School Life during the Japanese Occupation 

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Source D: School Life during the Japanese Occupation 

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Description: Over-aged students were not able to take part in education. Discipline and studies were important. Therefore, teenagers had to go to school for education.
Date:february 1942
Source Type: Written Source

When the Japanese Occupation started in February 1942, she had to stop school.  After that, for the three years of the Japanese Occupation, she attended a Japanese school, had to learn Japanese.

Source Origin: Singapore Memory Project