Using Force

• Meting Out Harsh Punishments

  -Inprisonment

  -Execution

  -Public display of heads

  -Instill fear -> warning

  -Food & cash rewards offered to encourage snitching of anti-Japanese activities -> beaten and tortured

  -Led to trust issues

  ⭐️Kempetai OIC

  -> Many learnt to go about their business quietly & never appear disobedient
• Imprisoning Allied Soldiers

  -British, Australians and Europeans (Allied Soldiers + Women & Children) were known as POWs

  -Forced to march to Changi Prison/ Barracks where they would be held at

  -> Civilians passed them food/money, risking Japanese punishment -> viewed them without status for once & pitied them
• Operation Sook-Ching

  -Aim was to identify & eliminate anti-Japanese elements among Chinese community

  -Especially did not like Japanese due to invasion of China in 1937

  -Chinese men aged 18-50 had to be screened

  ->Those not identified as anti-Japanese would receive a stamp to prevent further questioning

  ->Those identified as anti-Japanese would be tied up & kept underground -> sent to Punggol/Changi beach to be executed
• Coercing Chinese Business Community

  -Chinese business men momentarily supported China’s resistance against Japan

  -Dr Lim Boon Keng was the head of OCA (Overseas Chinese Association) -> a channel of communication between Chinese community & Japanese Government

  -OCA was demanded to gift Japanese administration $50 million Straits Dollars as “punishment” for supporting anti-Japanese activites