From December 1941, Japan, as part of its plan to build an East Asian empire and secure oil supplies essential for war in the Pacific, swiftly took control of S
During World War II, the Japanese government created a research bureau, the ChÅsabu, to study occupied Singapore. The bureau's reports on Singapore's economy a
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