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Mr Lau I know it is not needed to add the individual report here. However, we are worried that you might have not received our reports somehow. Therefore, we added it here

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The teenagers still suffered and starved before and during the Japanese Occupation. Even before the Japanese Occupation, it is said that school children mostly had " visual defects, anaemia and malnutrition". Which shows that teenagers already had health problems before the Japanese Occupation. When the Japanese Occupation came, the Japanese were cruel and did not give the locals enough food. Their diet mainly consisted of porridge and other food like tapioca. As said earlier, it was found out that teenagers mainly had the health problems stated above. The teenagers with malnutrition would be even more starved and deprived of the nutrition that our bodies need, and some might possibly die. Also, teenagers who were healthy before the occupation were most likely to suffer from the lack of food and nutrition. So, the Japanese increased the number of teenagers with malnutrition and/or the number of teenagers dying.  Another thing is that since the Japanese took over, they also did not give the people enough supplies to disinfect and/or bandage up their wounds. Teenagers with medical issues like anaemia need a lot of medical attention but is unable to get any during the occupation.
This shows that the Japanese, knowingly or not, are causing the teenagers and people to suffer from health issues

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Kei Min [Mr Lau this is without the explanation of the individual sources (basically just the comparing of sources). The one with the explanation of sources as well as this is in the paper i submitted with the name on the top right corner][Handed it up in your locker]

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Kei Min [Mr Lau this is without the explanation of the individual sources (basically just the comparing of sources). The one with the explanation of sources as well as this is in the paper i submitted with the name on the top right corner][Handed it up in your locker]

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These two sources are similar in telling me that there were strong divided communal lines throughout the colonial Singapore and Japanese Occupation. This can be seen from the Europeans only wanting to be with “their own kind” and the Japanese giving “favorable treatment” to the Malays whereas they would victimize the Chinese. These two pieces of evidence shows that they were being biased to certain races, their own race in the case of Europeans. Both the Europeans and Japanese were treating the different races differently. Hence, it can be said that both sources are similar in telling me there were strong divided communal lines.

The two sources are different in the way they treat the people and divide communal lines. For the Europeans, they would merely be biased towards Europeans. However, the Japanese would “victimize” the Chinese and do whatever they want to them as and when they like. This shows us that the Europeans were dividing communal lines through siding towards their side whereas the Japanese would violently abuse the race that they are unhappy with. Therefore, it can be said that both sources are different in the way they treat the people.

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Both sources from the newspapers shows problems about housings in Singapore, before and after the World War two, affecting both the general citizens of Singapore and teenagers. Before World War 2, on the year of 1937, Mr William Bartley, stated that Singapore may face a problem with housing shortage (possibility in the future), though the increase in general building activity in Singapore. From Mr Bartley’s statement, I can know that Singapore will eventually have such a problem as he stated that Singapore has a high building activity but did not have a good and constant prosperity. However, during the war when the Japanese were occupying Singapore, housing generally seemed to improve as three groups of settlers who came to Syonan(Singapore) managed to get proper housing. Construction of housing was also sped up to provide for more potential residents. On top of that, residents in Syonan were also given seeds from the Johore Government at that time to grow food for themselves. Looking at both sources, I can conclude that the Japanese had actually given better housing to people (teenagers included) living in Syonan while the British did not have any good plans for housing in Singapore. Other than that , I can also say that the Japanese were treating the Asians better than the British as the probably wanted to gain support from Asians.

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Before the Japanese occupation, having a job was seen as more important than having a good education. This can be seen from “Back then, Grade 6 was considered a good foundation in education”,  “was recommended by my teacher to further my studies in an English school but my late mother did not approve of it” “had to work part-time as a ‘coolie’ to help out a shopkeeper to carry his supplies to his shop” “salary would be used to support my family”. This showed that in most families, having studied to grade 6 was considered good as other families would have their child go to work to be able to support their family. From this I can tell that having a job was seen as more important than having a good education.  However, during the Japanese occupation, they were forced to work. This can be seen from “soldiers with rifles and bayonets rounded him up, along with other boys and men, and put them into trucks” “made to escort prisoners of war”. This shows during the Japanese occupation people were forced into jobs against their will. From this, I can tell that during the Japanese occupation people were forced to work.

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From both sources, I can tell that life and education got worse, and the change was tremendous. In the first source, I presumed the school looked neat and clean. The school was a good and renowned school in Singapore, both in the past and present. In the second source, room-sized jails were built inside the school. Schools are meant for educational purposes, where teenagers go to to learn and make new friends. But jails were built inside the school inside for the Japanese Kempeitai Headquarters, which meant that they took the space in the classrooms for them to keep the British. The learning space for teenagers were taken up, which meant that they no longer had any space to study. It changed one of Singapore’s best schools into a jail where they kept the prisoners. Teenage lives also got tough as they had to live in terrible conditions under the Japanese. In the first picture, the school looked neat and tidy, the trees were well grown and the flowers were arranged nicely. In the second picture where the school was filled with jails, the floor and the wood that made the jail was black. From the first source to the second source, the change was definitely not pleasant and the Japanese Occupation made life worse for the teenagers. Therefore, from the sources, I can state that the life of teenagers changed tremendously, not for the better but for the worse.

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We can infer that the Japanese Occupation made a huge change, for the worse, to the lives of the teenagers, causing it to be tougher and cause more hardships to the teenagers. However to a certain extent, the Europeans were no different from the Japanese.

Before the Japanese Occupation, jobs were better, but unenforced, than receiving education for the teenagers as they only work to help support their own families financially. People, including teenagers, can find jobs easily even with a low level of education. However, during the Japanese Occupation, many schools either closed, or were ran by the Japanese. Teenagers were made to drop their own native languages and learn Japanese against their own wills if they attended school. Other than that, the studying environment worsened as there were jails built in schools to keep the Europeans. During the Japanese Occupation, jobs such as sweeping the floors and repairing properties damaged by the Japanese were common jobs and their pay would be very little.  The Japanese biased over the Malays and Indians, and were violent towards their treatment to the Chinese. When they had complete control over the country, the Chinese were marked by the Japanese and victimise them, killing them or bullying them without reason whenever they felt like it. Housing was insufficient in both time periods as people would have to ‘wait’ for their turn to buy a flat. Population was increasing due to the high birth rates and immigrants who was either looking for a new life in Singapore or working here to support their families back in their own homelands. Food was also not enough in both time periods and and people were malnourished. But they suffered more during the Japanese Occupation, as less varieties of food was given.

This shows that the teenagers were originally given the freedom of choice between receiving education or working. However, the Japanese occupations forced most teenagers to stop schooling as most schools were either closed or the schools (ran by the Japanese) forced the students to learn a new language: Japanese, when they were already learning another language before that, making it harder for the students as they are more used to their own

language. The living conditions at the point in time was dirty and horrendous due to the property damage by the Japanese during the war and even during the Japanese Occupation. Many people were unable to have a roof over their heads and would have to sleep on the streets, either because they had no money or because there were insufficient housing. The Japanese discriminated the Chinese just because they were from China or they had roots from China, whereas they would treat the Malays and Indians generally better so as to win their support. Humans need a variety of nutrients, that comes from food, so that they won’t develop diseases and they would have sufficient energy to carry out their daily activities.

Therefore, it can be inferred that the Japanese Occupation made a huge change, for the worse, to the lives of the teenagers, causing it to be tougher and cause more hardships to the teenagers.

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Source A:

[Eurasians] considered themselves superior to the other local races and subordinate only to the European community…Eurasians were generally treated more like an equal by the Europeans here…The advent of the steamship brought more European settlers to the Colony. They began to distance themselves from the Eurasians and preferred to keep company with their own kind. They became ardent advocates of separate communal sporting and recreation clubs, whose memberships were open only to those of pure European descent. Even Europeans with Asian wives were frowned upon and made to feel unwelcome there......Therefore (Eurasians) founded their own Singapore Recreation Club

Singapore Eurasians – The Inheritors of Western and Asian Cultures

Source B:

The clubs were used as a Japanese officers' club and was home to the senior officers of the Japanese Imperial Army, headed by General Yamashita. The activities of the clubs were disrupted during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore…The Chinese were victimized most In the Malay Peninsula…. Usually the Japanese soldiers suddenly came to their villages and gathered the villagers to be killed without any explanation or official procedures. …Japanese soldiers did not follow any kind of legal procedures (to investigate, to arrest, to review the case) and killed unarmed and unresisting villagers. The massacres were brutal and the victims included women, children and babies. On the other hand, Malays often received favorable treatment from the Japanese ... Communal conflicts between the Malays and the Chinese, both awakened to national aspirations, and an increase in MCP (Malayan Communist Power) power were indelible legacies of the Occupation, although there are no indications that the Japanese deliberately incited racial or communal strife between Malays and Chinese. The conflict intensified when the Japanese army and police mobilized Malay policeman for an anti-MPAJA (Malayan People’s Anti-Japanese Army) campaign. The MPAJA responded by attacking Malay villages and kidnapping collaborators and the Malays in turn attacked and raided Chinese settlements.

Infopedia - Singapore Recreation Club
Infopedia - Singapore Club

Tanglin Club official website

PWD Club history

Book - New Perspectives on the Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45

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A. http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/history/events/6afe2b3e-5d38-4454-966d-95b77e47b112
(Generally teenagers and children in school)
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http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_1691_2010-07-08.html?s=1944
(possible coffee shop teenagers went)

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A. http://www.hsse.nie.edu.sg/staff/blackburn/oralhistoryJapaneseOccupationMalaymale.doc
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He was forced to escort POWs to Death Railway

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http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19370716-1.2.55?ST=1&AT=advanced&K=housing&KA=housing&DF=&DT=15%2F02%2F1942&NPT=&L=English&CTA=Article&QT=housing&oref=article
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http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/syonantimes19440302-1.2.18?ST=1&AT=advanced&K=housing&KA=housing&DF=15%2F02%2F1942&DT=12%2F09%2F1945&NPT=&L=English&CTA=Article&QT=housing&oref=article
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http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19811104-1.2.55?ST=1&AT=advanced&K=housing&KA=housing&DF=04%2F09%2F1945&DT=&Display=0&NPT=&L=English&CTA=Article&QT=housing&oref=article