“Singaporeans Spat at Us" I Met Japanese Living in SG for 43years 

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Thank you Michelle and Aunty for letting us have a glimpse into her life here all those years ago. I am grateful also that she tried to give voice to historical truths. It was a very heartfelt interview & I pray that her words will be heard by those who still suffer from the past. We should keep the past, in the past, even as we learn from it.

@@mamamememoo honestly there's hardly any anti-Jap sentiments in Sg as majority of population presently have not experienced WWII or only a minority heard stories from survivors to recount. Generally we've already moved on and also liked Japanese pple/culture so imo at least in the sg context, the focus is not on keeping the past in the past but learnings (ur last liner emphasized the former).

Yes, the past is gone so are most of the people of that time. Politicians will make war, but not ordinary people.

History is about to repeat itself as the politicians in Japan have whitewashed the war horrors in school textbooks and want to build nukes.

For a start maybe can stop treating us like mainland Chinese whenever we go over there?

​@@kageyamareijikun i feel very welcoming each time i'm in Japan ...mate

​@@kageyamareijikun were you behaving like a mainland chinese? Because every single Japanese has been very kind to me regardless of the prefecture I am in. This is experience from multiple trips every year for 10 years.

@@Deadlyroll this guy probly never step foot in Japan before lol. The people are wonderful. Cant judge the whole country just from his own bad encounters.

@@Deadlyroll no, I behave like a local. (I live here longterm)

what you need to do is to discover the truth of astrocieis commited by cruel Japanese soldiers. Unfortunately all the truth including how they killed the vulnerable (incl born and unborn babies) and how they raped for leisure have all been washed away by your country. Your school textbooks never even mentioned it. The crimes Jap committed was no lesser than those German did to Jews.

It's good that you had a good time in Singapore. We're not against all Japanese, just those that say that all the people they killed were for a good cause or those that try to get pity for the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and overlooked that Japan did a lot worse during that time of war. WWII was a bad time and Japan's military was out of control then. I suspect that no one, not even the Japanese government at that time could control them. Look at what happened to Prime Minister Tsuyoshi.

​@@danielc2701 Yes insubordination was rampant in the Japanese army leading to many atrocities but most people had already forgiven them and younger gen are more accepting. Perhaps, Japan could also learn from this and apologise.

@@crispusallen3865 I won't say that it was insubordination, the orders for killings tend to be from the top down so it was the whole military that was corrupt. IMO, the Japanese government really had no control over their military and the military just acted like local warlords outside of Japan itself. They even issued their own money in military script, basically acting like their own government.

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Your grandfather didn’t go through the Japanese war.

some people underestimate aunty wisdom...

I second that.

@SGsupremacist yeah guess only a few will remember. Most of us only rely on history books to know what happened.

so is he a collaborator?

@@jeannelim2164 nope in fact he was sent to the death railwy but managed to escape and hid in tg karang selangor 6 mth before war ended

Would you consider sharing his stories? A secondary source is still valuable.

@@ahwei23 i dun mind but i may not be detail than him .. 3 of his best frenz also share same fate ... sadly all had passed on .. My late grandfather used to stay at Kay Siang Road and Tanglin area was my dad playground that was where he befriended a Japanese spy who was disguised a slipper seller. The Japanese were interested in him bcz he had a Dutch education when he boy in Semarang and then to an eng sch in sgpore.

Perhaps they should apologise to every country that they have invaded and colonized. Up to now, not only they didn't do that, they changed their history books and denied their terrible wrong doing.

@@Truthstelling it's always the gov. they would say modern society we choose our gov, but not all people are strong enough to challenge the gov. even in sg, who dare to say the ruling party is wrong? most local japanese didnt wanna fight ww2, but the gov wanna fight. end up the bomb dropped on common ppl. the angmoh shd have dropped the 2 boys on the japanese gov, not the citizens. until today, most japanese citizens, again it's the commoners that, know abt the truth of ww2 and they admit it, except the gov.

@@Truthstelling Not the fault of their students though, it's the older generation that is slowly dying out. Once they have all gone, the younger generation would probably be more receptive to the idea that Imperial Japan screwed up by the numbers. It's a self correcting problem, just need to wait 100 years until all the old holdouts have all gone into the grave.

@@Truthstelling Japan has apologized and many times over. Did the Europeans like the British and Dutch apologize to Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia. The irony is that if Japan didn’t fight the US and other European nation to drive them out of Asia then what would Asia look like today? Would it have happened anyway? De-colonization. The Dutch King ruled over Indonesia. After WW2, the Dutch wanted everything back. Indonesia fought back and Japanese soldiers stayed and helped. When Japanese soldiers first arrived to the Dutch East Indies they were seen as liberators.

@@f430ferrari5 show me "the many times over" evidence please. They even changed their history book to cover their crimes.

yup , my grandpa hate the japanese and the taiwanese , he lost grandma to them. He did told us the taiwanese is worse than the japanese cos they understand his language and backstab his kampung community.

They probably did nasty things to her that she never wanted to talk about.

I am more than 70 years old n both my parents are no longer around. Sporean n our gov seldom or didnt want to bring up the past wound because for many it is too painful to recollect what really happened during Japanese occupation, My dad was slapped so badly n lost his hearing for weeks just because he didnt bow to the Japanese when he was crossing a bridge. My mom lost her two year sister where she carried her in her arm n ran to hide under a bridge n got injured by a fragment from a bomb that slashed a piece of meat from my mom's shoulder. Both were taken to the KK hospital by the Red Cross ambulance but on the 3rd day, my mom couldnt find her sister as they were separated in the hospital n she was lost forever. My wife's youngest uncle( english educated) was picked up by the Japanese from their house n put in an army truck n the family never see him again. Same as a friend of my mom where his brother also English educated n was picked up by the Japanese soldier n their family never saw him again. News was that they were all brought to Changi Beach n gunned down alive by the Japanese soldiers. Another friend of mine told me that her mother will never forgive the Japanese as they burned his brother( my friend uncle) alive infront of her eye. These are just some experience which happened to my family n friend i know. But such incidents happened across all Asia esp to the chinese.population. However, like the Chinese gov often said, we can forgive but we cannot forget because forgotten about history will only likely cause it to happen again n today the Japanese gov is buying arm n weapons under the excuse that they are being threaten by the Chinese to built up their military power again

And don’t forget to those ‘comfort women’..😢

@@tamachan5695 There was no anti Britsh activity in Spore as most of not all the residents in Spore were migrants. Many were from very poor countries like India, China n Indonesia . There were also other minority group like the Japanese, Burmese, Europeans... All came here to make a living n many didnt consider this as their country as their country were their motherland where they came from.. like India n China . The British other than maintaining law n order n encourage trade which they taxed upon, they were infact very fair n treated the people rather well. I have my primary education under the British n it is almost like free education. So if you think the people are badly treated by the British n the Japanese wee here to liberate the people, you are very wrong as you most likely have been brainwashed by yr gov propaganda.

@@tamachan5695 and if you think the Japanese was the one that liberate the Asian countries from the European colonial master, you are wrong. They defeated the European coloniser but they became the coloniser themselves as they establish the Japanese empire n officially called Spore Syonan Island 昭南島 .. They infact have overhaul the school n started introducing Japanese language into the school.

I appreciate that!

ooh well said, as a Singaporean I agree

I wonder if my mom might know her. It's a small community in the early days.

" Love's not love when it is mingled with regards that stand aloof from the entire point " - W. Shakespeare. This so called " Kind " officer could have been assigned to that local community to pull a PR Stunt, we will never know. But one thing for sure, just like any organisations , there are Good , Bad & the Genuinely Kind.

Have you any family or friends who was taken away by the Japanese Army and never seen them again? Talk to these people. Then go read the way the Japanese history textbooks address this issue. Go ask ordinary Japanese if any of them know of the 40,000 civilians that were killed during the occupation?

@@keffinsg My grandmother died in a bombing while my granduncle never returned during the Soo Ching massacre. My father was brought up by his grandmother. My great grandmother hated the Japanese for losing her son. Japanese should 謝罪 しゃざい。

Actually people don't hate Japan, they just hate it when the current Japanese officials deny the atrocities committed in the past and try to whitewash this part of their history.

@@keffinsg you historian?

The guest was come to Singapore after WWII so I think this topic is not related to the video.

who said that? that's why japan have a lot of US military base

Yeah that is good. Just sometimes some idiots will come in and tell everyone that Japan is being bullied and the victim of "war crimes" and piss everyone off as they know what wasn't told to these idiots, that they did even worse. When people are being kind enough not to bring it up, don't charge in and paint black into white. Sometimes these idiots do more damage to Japan's image than the "help" they think they are doing.