ST correspondents have shed light on a country that S’poreans admire but also share a painful wartime past with. Read more at ...

The Japanese were transferring P.O.W.s from Thailand to Japan, and I was one of a party of 450 who boarded a Japanese cargo boat at Singapore. We were packed on to the fore deck and with a little ...

The brutality of the new “Asia for the Asiatics” extended to anyone the Japanese considered their enemy. When Yamashita’s triumphant army reached Singapore, its soldiers deliberately sought ...

Unfortunately, relatively few Japanese of my generation or younger are familiar with the Occupation, when an earlier Japanese generation inflicted untold misery on the people of Singapore. It was not ...

The other Japanese officials served their sentences in Singapore. Gautam Hazarika is a Singapore-based author whose book on the Indian Army Prisoners of World War II is being published by Penguin ...

World War II spread from Europe to Asia December 1941 when Japan launched its own Blitzkrieg. This surprising move had an influence on the Indian freedom struggle. Soon after Japan captured ...

The Japanese troops march in Singapore on February 15, 1942 after occupying the city. Photo: VCG. On March 10, 1947, a provisional war crimes tribunal in Singapore officially began the trial of ...

The navy's premier deployment of 2025 has paid respects to aviators executed 80 years ago. The aviators were killed after the ...

After the fall of the Dutch East Indies, Malaya, Singapore, Manila and Rangoon, the Japanese Empire had achieved all of its initial objectives for the start of the war.