Excellent resolution to the controversy. Both the inappropriate “Syonan” and the pretentious “Gallery” dropped. I think we would have been poorer without this controversy, so all’s well that ends well. I am reminded of what Shanice Lishan Foh said in…
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The name of an exhibition on World War II-era Singapore will be changed, out of respect for the people who suffered under the Japanese Occupation. The exhibition, titled Syonan Gallery: War and Its Legacies, will now be called Surviving the…
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Yaccoob said the name Syonan wasn’t used to glorify Japanese Invasion and Occupation. Does he really understand what Syonan means in the full context in the first place? There is a slight mis-translation in lingo context. Most English translation puts…
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Syonan–light of the south. South of what? Japan, of course, and then we arrive at the idea of Singapore being a beacon of Japanese power in the dark, unknown southern frontiers. The Nipponcentricism is without a doubt offensive to those…
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