Talk:Japanese occupation of Singapore

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I'm going to expand more about the repression a bit later, but I need help...I know there's a lot, but I can't seem to remember what else they did besides rape and massacre (well technically that's already a lot)....I have some block. Anyway, I just remembered about Banana notes that became worthless...does it have an article yet? -- Natalinasmpf 02:28, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

I think that the occupation couldn't have been all bad. Certainly, they could have simply liquidated the city of its populace and hard assets. And sheesh.. Comfort women? How many would could have possibly been taken as forced prostitutes? This whole article is really just quite biased.

The Sook Ching wasn't a bad thing? It was an imposition of culture, massive censorship, forced to look to the Japanese as superiors, even worse than colonial rule. Elle _{vécut heureuse} ^{à jamais} (Be eudaimonic!) 15:19, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

The list of historical plaques and monuments is not complete. I'll add more as I think of them.VK35 20:25, 19 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] About Syonan/Shōnan

Copy/paste from Singapore's discussion page:

"I was reading the Japanese version of this article when I came across this:

>>この後、日本による軍政が敷かれ、シンガポールは「昭南島（しょうなんとう）」と改名された。 (From 2.3 日本による占領 )

Translation: "After the Japanese army took control, Singapore was renamed 'Shōnantō'" (or 'Shōnan-tō', which means Shōnan Island, with the Shōnan already being explained in the English article)

>>なお、昭南島とは「昭和の時代に得た南の島」の意とされている。 (Also from 2.3 日本による占領 )

Translation: "This name was to mean 'southern island gained in the age of Shōwa'".

Doesn't this mean that the tō (island) bit is part of the name, making it Shōnantō?

Also, back when I was in school, the textbooks claimed that Shōnan (they romanized it as Syonan, though) meant "Light of the South", and the Japanese article refutes this completely, so shouldn't that be mentioned as well? The textbooks may have been corrected since then, though, so someone would have to check."

Also, shouldn't Shōnan-tō and not Syonan-to be the "main" romanization? I checked the Wikipedia manual of style and it said to go with Revised Hepburn.

203.116.91.80 07:13, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 18:40, 13 February 2008 (UTC)