[9] Once occupied Malaya was under the Malay Military Administration (Malai Gunsei Kumbu) of the Imperial Japanese Army.

The Japanese administration of Malaya parallels, to a large extent, the British administrative system it superseded.

The Japanese occupation caused uncertainty and chaos for the local residents.

All the policies have impact on social, political and economic life of Malaya.

Japanese policy for the administration of occupied territories was developed in February 1941 by Colonel Obata Nobuyoshi (Section Chief of Intelligence – Southern Army), and Lt Colonels Otoji Nishimura and Seijiro Tofuku of the General Staff.

Late 1945 – Angkatan Wanita Sedar (AWAS) was established. The BMA was under the direct command of the Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, Lord Louis Mountbatten.The administration had the dual function of maintaining basic subsistence during the …

Where changes have occurred, the most significant have been in the higher levels, while the provincial and local governments remain much as they were before the war. Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Arizona, 1973.

310p. JAPANESE MILITARY ADMlNISTTRATION IN MALAYA-ITS FORMATION AND EVOLUTION IN REFERENCE TO SULTANS, THE ISLAMIC RELIGION, AND THE MOSLEM-MALAYS, 1941-1945 by YOJI AKASHI ONE OF THE IMPORTANT PROBLEMS FOR THE JAPANESE MILITARY in the administration of occupied Malaya was the treatment of sultans The BMA was under the direct command of the Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia, Lord Louis Mountbatten.The administration had the dual function of maintaining basic subsistence during the … Pp. The Imperial Japanese Army landed at Padang Pak Amat beach just after midnight on 8 December 1941, triggering a ferocious battle with the British Indian Army only an hour before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Malaya’s Indian, Chinese and Arab mercantile communities suffered losses under the Japanese, and emerged from the war with their trans-regional networks damaged. A… 12 September – British Military Administration(BMA) was installed in Kuala Lumpur.

55-93) DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv1xz0b7.15 By the time of the British surrender in February 1942, the Japanese had already taken control of local and state …

The Japanese Occupation of Malaya and Singapore, 1941-45: A Social and Economic History was first published in 1998 and is now re-issued in a new edition that incorporates information from newly translated Japanese documents and other recent discoveries. For Malaya: the Straits Settlements were under the Japanese Army, the Federated Malaya States under their sultans, and the four northern states were to eventually revert to Thai rule. The British Military Administration (BMA) was the interim administrator of British Malaya from August 1945, the end of World War II, to the establishment of the Malayan Union in April 1946. viii, 404.

4 September – WW2: Japanese forces in Malaya surrendered to the Allies at Penang, signing Penang surrender document on HMS Nelson. In his analysis of the Malai Gunsei or Japanese military administration in Malaya, Japanese historian Akashi Yoji concludes that, despite initial proposals to solicit Chinese cooperation, “the voice of moderation fell by the wayside.” He fingers Watanabe Wataru, the deputy chief of the gunsei, as the primary voice of excess. In designing post-war policies, the restored colonial administration introduced initiatives to reshape ownership and control within the Malayan economy. Penang was governed as part of the Japanese military administration of Malaya (excluding Singapore, renamed Syonan-to), which renamed Malaya as Marai.

Japanese Army takes charge of Malaya during the Second World War. Japanese military administration in Malaya and the Philippines.

CHAPTER 3 The Japanese Administration of Malaya (pp. During the Japanese occupation for 3 ½ years, all the local people controlled by Japanese and much suffering be in effect.