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15-02-2014, 07:10 PM
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http://therealsingapore.com/content/...ory-weve-moved (http://therealsingapore.com/content/pm-lee-speech-japan-jap-occupation-simply-history-weve-moved)
Editor's Note: A bit of background history on Mr Lee Kuan Yew for those of you who are interested in World War 2 History.
During the Japanese occupation, Lee Kuan Yew learnt Japanese and first worked as a clerk in his grandfather's friend's company—a textile importer called Shimoda. Lee then found work transcribing Allied wire reports for the Japanese where he listened to Allied radio stations and wrote down what they were reporting in the Hodobu office (報道部 – a Japanese propaganda department). Towards the end of the war, by listening to Allied radio stations, he realised the Japanese were going to lose, and fearing that a brutal war would break out in Singapore as the Japanese made their last stand, he made plans to purchase and move to a farm on the Cameron Highlands with his family. However, a liftboy in his office told him his file had been taken out by the security department, and he realised he was being followed by Japanese security personnel (which continued for three months), so he abandoned those plans as he knew that if he went ahead, he would be in trouble. Lee also ran his own businesses during the war to survive, among which, he manufactured stationery glue under his own brand called 'Stikfas'.
During the occupation, Lee was asked by a Japanese guard to join a group of segregated Chinese men. Sensing that something was amiss, he asked for permission to go back home to collect his clothes first, and the Japanese guard agreed. It turned out that those who were segregated were taken to the beach to be shot as part of the Sook Ching massacre in Singapore.
Source: Lee Kuan Yew The Man And His Ideas (1998). Singapore: Times Edition.
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?175018-WW2-to-FTrashisation-Once-a-Traitor-Always-a-Traitor!&goto=newpost).
http://therealsingapore.com/content/...ory-weve-moved (http://therealsingapore.com/content/pm-lee-speech-japan-jap-occupation-simply-history-weve-moved)
Editor's Note: A bit of background history on Mr Lee Kuan Yew for those of you who are interested in World War 2 History.
During the Japanese occupation, Lee Kuan Yew learnt Japanese and first worked as a clerk in his grandfather's friend's company—a textile importer called Shimoda. Lee then found work transcribing Allied wire reports for the Japanese where he listened to Allied radio stations and wrote down what they were reporting in the Hodobu office (報道部 – a Japanese propaganda department). Towards the end of the war, by listening to Allied radio stations, he realised the Japanese were going to lose, and fearing that a brutal war would break out in Singapore as the Japanese made their last stand, he made plans to purchase and move to a farm on the Cameron Highlands with his family. However, a liftboy in his office told him his file had been taken out by the security department, and he realised he was being followed by Japanese security personnel (which continued for three months), so he abandoned those plans as he knew that if he went ahead, he would be in trouble. Lee also ran his own businesses during the war to survive, among which, he manufactured stationery glue under his own brand called 'Stikfas'.
During the occupation, Lee was asked by a Japanese guard to join a group of segregated Chinese men. Sensing that something was amiss, he asked for permission to go back home to collect his clothes first, and the Japanese guard agreed. It turned out that those who were segregated were taken to the beach to be shot as part of the Sook Ching massacre in Singapore.
Source: Lee Kuan Yew The Man And His Ideas (1998). Singapore: Times Edition.
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?175018-WW2-to-FTrashisation-Once-a-Traitor-Always-a-Traitor!&goto=newpost).