ABSTRACT
Gordon Daniels has commented, with some justice, that British and to some extent American studies of Japanese history have focused on the four-year period 1941-45 in such a way as to make it appear the most crucial hinge of fate in Japanese history. Taking all the qualifications into account, the Oral History Project remains an invaluable source for the history of the Japanese occupation. The Chinese community has also published its own account of this period. The Singapore Cultural and Historical Publishing House published in 1984 a large volume, edited by Chua Ser Koon, entitled Malayan Chinese Resistance to Japan, 1937–1945, Selected Source Materials. During the Japanese occupation, to penetrate into Malaya, under the auspices of Force 136, the Far East variant of Special Operations Executive in Europe. There are Japanese accounts which touch local issues more directly, some personal, some collective.
