Creating and Mobilizing “Syonan” Youth: Youth and the Japanese Occupation of Singapore, 1942-1945

In 1942, The Japanese Occupation of Singapore (1942-1945) interrupted British rule in and paved the way for island-city’s independence 1965. scholarly literature on this dramatic traumatic period usually focus military aspects capitulation to invasion or submerge officers civilian administrators’ efforts mobilize discipline children youth within broader examination social policies. This article examines these different school during period. create new subjects out Singapore’s their bodies incorporation into a pan-Asian empire. Even though attempts failed, they subsequent policies disciplinary projects colonial local nationalist governments after war. Thus, heralded intersection state-society relations age Singapore.