HISTORY LESSON: Life During the Japanese Occupation

During the Japanese occupation, some people were placed in prison where all prisoners with different races, customs and religions were forced to behave naturally. Everyone in there had to shower together under a long pipe with only a piece of soap. They had to be quick in their actions on whatever they had to do. Some prisoners passed away from infections like dysentery which caused severe diarrhoea. One of the ominous policies of the Japanese was the wartime exploitation of women. Women were forced into flesh trade which was mainly known as prostitution and there was also force labour in those days. Japanese schools were also opened in those days, one of the school rules was that if you see a soldier along the corridors of the school, you have to bow to him if not the students would get brutal beatings by the Japanese