The center of Tan Twan Eng’s deceptively seductive novel, The Garden of Evening Mists, turns on numerous unsettling events in Malaya during World War II and its aftermath. During the war, the ...

The Malaya Lolas is associated with the “Bahay na Pula ... READ: Flowers for Lolas: Remembering horrors of World War II through PPO music Japanese soldiers systematically raped the women as part of ...

While all eyes remember Pearl Harbor, the first shots of the Pacific War were fired thousands of miles away—on the shores of ...

The Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) was a resistance force against fascism when Malaya was occupied by the Japanese on Dec 8, 1941, during World War II. It originated among Chinese ...

Message 1 - Re taking of Malaya Posted on: 15 August 2004 by archben. I know that some time has elapsed since this item was posted but I would like to know the date of arrival off the coast of ...

Thanks in large part to Hollywood’s pervasive influence, most of the world sees the Dec 8, 1941, bombing of Pearl Harbor in the United States as the start of hostilities in the Pacific during ...

EVER since the surprise attack on the US Navy's base at Pearl Harbour by Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft on Dec 7, 1941, it has been assumed that "this day that will live in infamy" marked the ...

Malaya, even after the Japanese occupation, was in many ways a more developed country than we had been in before. The people were absolutely delighted to welcome us as we landed, overjoyed that ...