The Perak Times: a rare Japanese-occupation newspaper from Malaya (British Library) May 2016
http://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2016/05/the-perak-times-a-rare-japanese-occupation-newspaper-from-malaya.html
...The British Library was therefore delighted and very grateful to receive as a donation copies of a rare Japanese-occupation era propaganda newspaper. The Perak Times was published in Ipoh, Perak from 1942 until at least the end of 1943. It was a daily newspaper in English, usually consisting of just one broadsheet page, which appeared every day of the week except Sunday. According to the colophon the paper was printed and published at 62-64 Belfield Street, Ipoh by John Victor Morais (1910-1991), a prominent Malaysian writer and journalist of south Indian origin, who later edited the Malaya Tribune and the Ipoh Daily News. Until recently, the only known copies of The Perak Times were held in the National Archives of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur and in the Penang Public Library. Now a four-month run, from April to July 2603 (i.e. 1943) can be consulted in the British Library (ORB.99/234)....
http://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2016/05/the-perak-times-a-rare-japanese-occupation-newspaper-from-malaya.html
...The British Library was therefore delighted and very grateful to receive as a donation copies of a rare Japanese-occupation era propaganda newspaper. The Perak Times was published in Ipoh, Perak from 1942 until at least the end of 1943. It was a daily newspaper in English, usually consisting of just one broadsheet page, which appeared every day of the week except Sunday. According to the colophon the paper was printed and published at 62-64 Belfield Street, Ipoh by John Victor Morais (1910-1991), a prominent Malaysian writer and journalist of south Indian origin, who later edited the Malaya Tribune and the Ipoh Daily News. Until recently, the only known copies of The Perak Times were held in the National Archives of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur and in the Penang Public Library. Now a four-month run, from April to July 2603 (i.e. 1943) can be consulted in the British Library (ORB.99/234)....
Historical War Crimes Trials in Asia. Edited by Liu Daqun and Zhang Binxin. Published by Torkel Opsahl.
www.toaep.org/ps-pdf/27-liu-zhang
This anthology consists of papers on the Tokyo trial, as well as national trials conducted by different authorities including the Chinese Nationalist government’s trials, the People’s Republic of China’s trials and the British trials in Hong Kong. While the discussions focus on questions of law, there are also fascinating accounts of research challenges in negotiating archives, searching for corroborating live witnesses and participants etc. Contributors include: Xue Ru, Zhu Dan, Yuma Totani, David Cohen, Gao Xiudong, Liu Daqun, Wong Xintong, Zhang Tianshu, Zhang Binxin, Nina H.B. Jorgensen, Crystal Yeung, Suzannah Linton, Gao Hong, Li Dan and Guido Acquaviva.
The ebook version is available free online. To buy a printed copy, order online through booksellers - Search ISBN: 9788283480559.
www.toaep.org/ps-pdf/27-liu-zhang
This anthology consists of papers on the Tokyo trial, as well as national trials conducted by different authorities including the Chinese Nationalist government’s trials, the People’s Republic of China’s trials and the British trials in Hong Kong. While the discussions focus on questions of law, there are also fascinating accounts of research challenges in negotiating archives, searching for corroborating live witnesses and participants etc. Contributors include: Xue Ru, Zhu Dan, Yuma Totani, David Cohen, Gao Xiudong, Liu Daqun, Wong Xintong, Zhang Tianshu, Zhang Binxin, Nina H.B. Jorgensen, Crystal Yeung, Suzannah Linton, Gao Hong, Li Dan and Guido Acquaviva.
The ebook version is available free online. To buy a printed copy, order online through booksellers - Search ISBN: 9788283480559.
Pacific Atrocities Education
www.pacificatrocities.org
Non-profit community organisation in San Francisco aimed at disseminating information about the Asia-Pacific War through the arts, community projects and internships. Website includes blog posts about specific topics relating to various Asian theatres of war. Proposed mission as published on their website: The goal of Pacific Atrocities Education is to inform others about such acts of genocide and other atrocities committed against Asian Pacific peoples during 1931-1945 because of bias, prejudice and discrimination. Through ongoing research, documentation of survivor testimony and presentation of history we will help people in the U.S. to come to understand what transpired in the past within the Pacific in order to better understand their responsibility as citizens today is to identify the signs and dangers of genocide around the world...
www.pacificatrocities.org
Non-profit community organisation in San Francisco aimed at disseminating information about the Asia-Pacific War through the arts, community projects and internships. Website includes blog posts about specific topics relating to various Asian theatres of war. Proposed mission as published on their website: The goal of Pacific Atrocities Education is to inform others about such acts of genocide and other atrocities committed against Asian Pacific peoples during 1931-1945 because of bias, prejudice and discrimination. Through ongoing research, documentation of survivor testimony and presentation of history we will help people in the U.S. to come to understand what transpired in the past within the Pacific in order to better understand their responsibility as citizens today is to identify the signs and dangers of genocide around the world...
The War and After: Singapore. By John Hayter and Jack Bennitt, Priests of the Diocese. London: Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, no date [c. 1947] Project Canterbury
anglicanhistory.org/asia/sg/hayter_bennitt/
...Penang was gravely threatened, and early in the morning of Sunday, December 16th, British women and children were sent down to Singapore. Some days later all British men were also evacuated from Penang, and they too went south to Singapore, by sea, as the land communications were threatened by the speed of the Japanese advance. [8/9] No satisfactory explanation has yet been given for the manner of this second evacuation. Three men--the Rev. Eric Scott, priest-in-charge of St. Mark's, Butterworth, on the mainland, Major Harvey of the Salvation Army and Dr. Evans refused to leave, although ordered to do so. But the completeness of the evacuation caused untold suffering to the people of Penang. The Japanese, not realising that we had withdrawn from the Island, continued their bombing raids, and the densely crowded areas of the town of Penang had previously been heavily attacked. Looting was widespread, all public services broke down; the labour force melted away, with no one to control it, and bodies remained for days in the streets or under debris. Harvey and Eric Scott continued working in the camps of temporary hutments outside the town, feeding and housing many hundreds who had been made homeless or who had taken refuge there from the bombing. But in the town there was chaos. The position was saved by a Ceylonese journalist named Saravaramuthu, an Anglican...
anglicanhistory.org/asia/sg/hayter_bennitt/
...Penang was gravely threatened, and early in the morning of Sunday, December 16th, British women and children were sent down to Singapore. Some days later all British men were also evacuated from Penang, and they too went south to Singapore, by sea, as the land communications were threatened by the speed of the Japanese advance. [8/9] No satisfactory explanation has yet been given for the manner of this second evacuation. Three men--the Rev. Eric Scott, priest-in-charge of St. Mark's, Butterworth, on the mainland, Major Harvey of the Salvation Army and Dr. Evans refused to leave, although ordered to do so. But the completeness of the evacuation caused untold suffering to the people of Penang. The Japanese, not realising that we had withdrawn from the Island, continued their bombing raids, and the densely crowded areas of the town of Penang had previously been heavily attacked. Looting was widespread, all public services broke down; the labour force melted away, with no one to control it, and bodies remained for days in the streets or under debris. Harvey and Eric Scott continued working in the camps of temporary hutments outside the town, feeding and housing many hundreds who had been made homeless or who had taken refuge there from the bombing. But in the town there was chaos. The position was saved by a Ceylonese journalist named Saravaramuthu, an Anglican...
Massacre in Negri Sembilan, Malaysia, during the Japanese Occupation
atrocityinns.net
This website was created and is maintained by volunteer Simon Lim. It is dedicated to events surrounding the sook ching ('purge through cleansing') massacres of February to April 1942 in Negri Sembilan state, Malaysia. It contains materials previously published by the local state Chinese Assembly Hall, Negri Sembilan Huatang, as well as updates on commemoration activities. Also includes details and testimonies from residents -- eyewitnesses, survivors and relatives of survivors.
atrocityinns.net
This website was created and is maintained by volunteer Simon Lim. It is dedicated to events surrounding the sook ching ('purge through cleansing') massacres of February to April 1942 in Negri Sembilan state, Malaysia. It contains materials previously published by the local state Chinese Assembly Hall, Negri Sembilan Huatang, as well as updates on commemoration activities. Also includes details and testimonies from residents -- eyewitnesses, survivors and relatives of survivors.