Research On Japanese Popularization Movement In Singapore During The Japanese Occupation

On February 15,1942,Japanese troops captured Singapore.Japan launched a Japanese language popularization campaign in Singapore to popularize Japanese to the public through school education,news media,music and other means from February 1942 to September 1945.First of all,this paper sorts out the policy,organization and implementation of the Japanese popularization movement in Singapore,and analyzes the promotion role of scholars.The focus of the paper is to discuss the two main forms of Japanese popularization movement---Japanese education and media publicity.Japanese education is carried out through the establishment of Queen Street School,Japanese private school in Zhaonan Benyuan Temple and Xingya Training Institute,etc.,and the compilation of teaching materials such as "Japanese Reader" and "Mandarin Reader".Among them,it focuses on the analysis of the running situation of Queen Street School.The school has gone through three stages,namely,the Zhaonan Japanese Academy,the Japanese School of Military and Political Supervision Department and the Japanese Teaching Institute.In addition to teaching Japanese,the school pays more attention to the teaching of Japanese etiquette and the inculcation of Japanese imperial spirit.In addition to language knowledge,Japanese textbooks compiled by the Japanese army have also added Japanese etiquette,Japanese military songs and expressions alluding to the occupied areas in the south.The content of the text gives a very high evaluation to the language "Japanese" as well as the Japanese and Japanese culture.Spreading Japanese through public media is another major form of Japanese popularization.The Japanese army used newspapers,radio,music and cartoons to promote Japanese,Japanese local customs and culture and the spirit of the Japanese emperor.Among them,the newspaper,focusing on the analysis of the "cherry blossom newspaper" and "Zhao nan daily".In terms of broadcasting,whether it is public broadcasting or school broadcasting,it focuses on broadcasting relevant Japanese news,Japanese lectures,Japanese songs,etc.In terms of music,it focuses on the analysis of songs published in the English edition of Zhao nan daily and sakura daily.As for cartoons,it mainly analyzes the cartoons of Cang Jin Liang Xing and Song Xia Ji Jiu Xiong.Japanese language popularization campaign in Singapore by Japanese army has severely damaged the livelihood,freedom and human rights of local residents.It is essentially a kind of obscurantism education,aiming at carrying out cultural invasion in Japanese,publicizing Japanese culture,carrying out education of the kominka,and building the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Circle.The promoters of the Japanese popularization movement put on the coat of "goodwill and friendship",hoping to gradually carry out subtle and planned cultural infiltration while easing the dissatisfaction of the ruled.They further started from instilling Japanese culture and changed the culture and thinking of the ruled in the root seedlings.They make the ruled from doubt,fear,passivity and resistance to feel inferior to their own nation,abandoning their own culture and thinking automatically,changing to admire and look forward to the culture of colonial rulers sincerely,and then actively and actively imitate,hoping to be reborn and become a tributary of the Japanese nation.The Japanese popularization movement has expanded the position and range of application of Japanese in Singapore,but it has also created faults in education in Singapore and a gap in Japanese education in the 20 years after the war.At the same time,it has aroused anti-Japanese sentiment among Singaporeans,especially among Chinese Singaporeans.