History Investigation by Karyn

How Japanese Occupation affect lives of teengaers

Nadzz — 2016-04-06 00:37:28 UTC

-School Life
-Leisure and Recreation
-Jobs teenagers had

SCHOOL LIFE

Nadzz — 2016-04-06 00:38:47 UTC

Education

Source C: Gay World (Happy World)

xjnj_ — 2016-04-06 00:51:56 UTC

BEFORE

Source type: Written
Source date: 1920s

Gay World was one of three amusement parks built in Singapore before World War II and around which Singapore's nightlife revolved from the 1920s to the 1960s.

The other two worlds were:

1) Great World

2) New World

Orgin: http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_1044_2006-06-01.html

Jobs teenagers had

karynsiol — 2016-04-06 00:55:44 UTC

Work

SOURCE E

karynsiol — 2016-04-13 06:17:02 UTC

BEFORE

"I was recommended by my teacher
to further my studies in an English school but my late mother did not approve of it so I had to work part-time, as a ‘coolie’ to help out a shopkeeper to carry his supplies to his shop. That would be my source of income when I first started working. When I was eighteen, my friend in a company called Asiatic Petroleum Company or APC, as you know now as Shell, offered me a job as an oil tanker driver."

Interviewee: Mr Mohd Amin Bin Haji Sirat

Source date: taken before the war started
Source type: Oral

Source origin: http://www.hsse.nie.edu.sg/staff/blackburn/oralhistoryJapaneseOccupationMalaymale.doc

Source B

Nadzz — 2016-04-13 06:28:35 UTC

DURING

A Japanese teacher pasting posters with educational Japanese sentences to educate the natives in Japanese Language after the Japanese take over Singapore.

Source origin: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Japanese_soldiers_post_instructive_Japanese_posters.jpg

Source type: visual
Source date: 1943

Picture of Gay World

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Picture of Great World

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Picture of New World

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Source D: No Radios, No Entertainment

xjnj_ — 2016-04-18 06:37:33 UTC

DURING

Source type: Oral
Source Date: Interviewed Around the 1990s about the Japanese Occupation (1942 - 1945)

"We did not have a radio and there was never any entertainment," Madam Wong recalled.

Gambling was not allowed. Congregating together was illegal and this made any form of gathering impossible.

Orgin: http://ourstory.asia1.com.sg/war/headline/torture2.html

Leisure/Recreation

Nadzz — 2016-04-18 06:46:00 UTC

Entertainment

Source A

Nadzz — 2016-04-18 06:56:51 UTC

BEFORE

This source shows students of an English school - mostly British people. Schools before the Japanese Occupation depends on what language school they went and also depends on their race - Malay school teaches in Malay language and so on.

Source origin: http://history2i4grp4.weebly.com/

Source type: visual

Source date: 1930

SOURCE F

karynsiol — 2016-04-18 06:57:31 UTC

AFTER

Mr. Kuppusamy did not attend school but worked as an odd job labourer. Later, he worked as a car washer for the Japanese. He told that he was not disturbed by the Japanese and was given food or money as his pay. He also mentioned that the Japanese did not disturb his family or him. Their attitude was that as long as you are good to them they would be good to you.

Interviewee: Mr Kuppusamy Reddy

Source taken: during the war
Source type: oral

Source origin:

http://www.hsse.nie.edu.sg/staff/blackburn/OralhistoryJapaneseOccupationMaleIndian.doc