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Source H: Did the Japanese Occuption change the life of teengers

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Source H: Did the Japanese Occuption change the life of teengers

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Source description: Importance of Education
Source date: 2012
Source origin: Sean Keh
Source type: Blog

Before Japanese Occupation,  education was not important. During the Occupation, students no matter a child or teenager had to stop school and had to attend Japanese schools.

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Source F : What food was sold to teenagers during the Japanese Occupation 

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Source F : What food was sold to teenagers during the Japanese Occupation 

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Source Description : Oral Interview with Tan Wah Meng
Source Date :29 Aug 1983
Source Origin : The National Archives Online
Source Type : Oral Interview

LLL:So how frequent did you sell your vegetables ,your pork and the others?
TWH:Actually the market opens everyday.Pork once or twice a week.Salt fish always we got stock there.Tapioca also,sweet potato also.Very rare we run out of vegetable,tobacco,tapioca and sweet potato.Like pork always runs out.Fresh fish always run out of stock

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Source G: School life during the Japanese Occupation

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Source G: School life during the Japanese Occupation

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Source description: People were forced to learn Japanese
Source date: 17 February 2013
Source origin: Hafiz Sapuwan
Source type: Blog

Student's were forced to take up Japanese subjects in their school. All subject's in their school was taught in Japanese. It was hard for the students to adapt to these changes as they could not understand Japanese.

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Source D: Leisure and recreational of the teenagers during the Japanese Occupation

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Source D: Leisure and recreational of the teenagers during the Japanese Occupation

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Source Description: Facilities for the teenagers were being replaced
Source Origin: The National Library
Source Type: Writing source
Source Date: 14 June 2004

Recreation for the teenagers, such as theme parks were replaced by other facilities. This is evident in the line’ 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.’ There were lesser recreation for the teenagers as their places where they spend their leisure time gave way to other facilities. Thus they have less recreation and leisure activity and time.

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Source C: Leisure and recreational of the teenagers before the Japanese Occupation

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Source C: Leisure and recreational of the teenagers before the Japanese Occupation

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Source Description: Teenagers being restricted to stay indoor
Source Origin: The National Library
Source Type: Writing source
Source Date: 14 June 2004

The teenagers were restricted to stay indoors for their leisure and recreation activities. It is evident in the line’ 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.’ It is because there were many Japanese outdoors patrolling around and teenagers were afraid to trigger the Japanese soldiers as they might endanger their own lives if they do so. Hence, the teenagers had not much fun due to scared of the Japanese soldiers patrolling around.

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Source E : Food the teenagers were eating during the Japanese Occupation

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Source E : Food the teenagers were eating during the Japanese Occupation

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Source Description : Oral Interview with Chan Kai Yau regarding the food choices teenagers had during the Japanese Occupation
Source Date: 9 Dec 1994
Source Origin : The National Archives Online
Source Type : Oral Interview

CCH:In what way was your family life affected by the war?Any shortages of any sort,like what you said,clothings?
CKY:Clothings,shortage.Shortage in the sense that no new ones could be bought.So the old ones,whatever it is,when its torn you just patch.As far as the food was concerned,also we had to make do with sweet potato,with tapioca and so on.You can't have rice every meal.Then bread also.You have got to cut down on a bit.Meat
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Class: 204
Group members:
Chloe Sasha Lee (3), Source A and B, Valencia Quek (13), Source C and D
Ashley Wee (14), Source E and F, Clarice Sin (12), Source G and H

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Source B: Health Welfare of teenagers during the Japanese Occupation

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Source B: Health Welfare of teenagers during the Japanese Occupation

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Source Description: Oral Interview with Gay Wan Guay regarding teenagers health
Source Date: 6 June 1984
Source Origin: The National Archives online
Source Type: Oral Interview

LLL: What about the health conditions in Singapore at that time? How was it like?

GWG: Well, in the beginning it was not bad. But later there was a lot of cases of beriberi. That was what I know of. But other things I don't know. But beriberi because quite common because there was a bit of scare of malaria in my street, I did take that. Whether it helped me or not, I don't know. There were some cases of malaria.

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Source A: Health welfare of teenagers before the Japanese Occupation

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Source A: Health welfare of teenagers before the Japanese Occupation

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Source Description: Information of the School Health Services of Singapore established in 1921

Source Date: 1921

Source Origin: History SG

Source Type: Written Source

The main health issues of school children reported in 1921 were dental cavities, visual defects, anaemia and malnutrition. Tooth decay was the most common health issue detected, affecting 84 percent of school children. This led to an investment in toothbrushes for students and daily tooth-brushing drills. While a decrease in dental cavities was reported in the years that followed, many children were still affected due to the lack of dental facilities. In 1947, the school dental service was established to handle the dental health of school children, with the appointment of the first dental officer for schools in 1954.