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Helped plan the Sook Ching
- After the capture of Singapore, Tsuji helped plan the Sook Ching, a systematic massacre of thousands of Malayan Chinese who might be hostile to Japan.
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Aug 15, 2023 · Tsuji stresses two key success factors in the conquest of Malaya and Singapore. The first was the Japanese soldier’s fighting spirit. On average, Japanese troops fought two battles, repaired four or five bridges, and advanced up to 20 kilometres every day.
- John Zada
After the capture of Singapore, Tsuji helped plan the Sook Ching, a systematic massacre of thousands of Malayan Chinese who might be hostile to Japan. [11] He was then transferred to the staff of General Homma in the Philippines.
By December 1941, Colonel Masanobu Tsuji and his Taiwan Army Research Section boldly forecast a campaign of 100 days to speed through the jungles of Malaya and seize the island-bound city of Singapore, Britain's jewel of Southeast Asia.
The fall of Singapore, the sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse, and other defeats in 1941–42 all severely undermined British prestige, which contributed to the end of British colonial rule in the region after the war.
Mar 19, 2019 · In the chaotic first days after the fall of Singapore, he ordered the systematic roundup and execution of thousands of Chinese deemed hostile to Japan; civil servants, teachers, and lawyers were among those trucked to secluded beaches and shot.
- Kirstin Fawcett
In his book, Tsuji tells how he had been ordered to establish a 'Research Group' in Taiwan to study the problems of a Pacific War and especially to prepare plans for the capture of Malaya and Singapore.
Despite the Allied withdrawal to Singapore City after the loss of Bukit Timah, Colonel Masanobu Tsuji, the mastermind and chief planner of the Japanese offensive, had made an unsettling observation that the British were expending their field artillery shells as if they had no shortage while Yamashita’s artillery ammunition stockpiles were ...
