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Date Posted: 18:59:32 09/16/06 Sat
Author: Professor Wan Adnan (UbatAntibiotik Pembunuh Rakyat)
Subject: Jangan Sekali-Sekala Melupakan Zaman Kezaliman Orang Jepun

Japanese Occupation (1941-1945)
By the start of the second world war, Malaya's economy was flourishing with the output of tin and rubber, giving it great strategic importance. Malaya fell under threat of a Japanese invasion when the American, British and Dutch governments froze essential raw materials and oil supplies to Japan. Japan was then forced to look to Southeast Asia for shipments. While Britain was preoccupied with defending itself against he threat of German invasion, the Japanese wasted no time to effect their occupation of Malaya, commencing with the bombing of the beaches of Kota Bharu in Kelantan, and Singapore, on 8 December 1941.

The takeover continued almost without opposition as Commonwealth troops defending Malaya were expecting invasion by sea and not by land. They were hopelessly and inadequately trained in jungle warfare and lacked ammunition, so fell to the invaders one by one. Malaya was occupied for the next three and a half years by the Japanese.

The occupation ended only with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. British forces then landed in Malaya and re-established their authority.



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